Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:33:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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It will have to write the whole 200M packfile out each time, though.

No.  gc will only create a pack with new loose objects by default.  
Only if the number of packs grow too large will it combine them into one 
pack.

I think that is only "gc --auto".

Argh. You're right.  And "gc --auto" is already ran by many commands 
already.

It is "git repack" that doesn't combine packs by default.


Nicolas