Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] maintenance: add incremental-repack task
From: Jonathan Tan <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-24 22:01:37
Here is my attempt to incorporate your recommendations into this doc: incremental-repack:: The `incremental-repack` job repacks the object directory using the `multi-pack-index` feature. In order to prevent race conditions with concurrent Git commands, it follows a two-step process. First, it calls `git multi-pack-index expire` to delete pack-files unreferenced by the `multi-pack-index` file. Second, it calls `git multi-pack-index repack` to select several small pack-files and repack them into a bigger one, and then update the `multi-pack-index` entries that refer to the small pack-files to refer to the new pack-file. This prepares those small pack-files for deletion upon the next run of `git multi-pack-index expire`. The selection of the small pack-files is such that the expected size of the big pack-file is at least the batch size; see the `--batch-size` option for the `repack` subcommand in linkgit:git-multi-pack-index[1]. The default batch-size is zero, which is a special case that attempts to repack all pack-files into a single pack-file.
Thanks, this looks good.