Re: git auto-repack is broken...

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:08:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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But we shouldn't be packing totally unreferenced objects.

Everything you said is correct in today's Git and I obviously know it, but
I was taking the "Or have an extra option to..." at the end of the OP's
message in the thread into account, so...

Ah, sorry, I missed the subtlety of Linus's "repacking the objects
results in problems..." from his later message and thought he just meant
repacking in general. Yes, it's a bad idea to repack unreachable objects
because then you could never prune anything.

I think just shrinking the --expire window that we already use is a much
more reasonable bet. It's not about preventing the loss of old work
(reflogs are there for that), but about avoiding hurting an actively
running, about-to-reference-the-objects git process. And 2 weeks is
quite conservative for that.

-Peff