Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] repack: support repacking into a geometric sequence

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:54:56PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:

Would it make sense to somehow detect all new packs since the last rollup and
always include them in the rollup no matter what their size? That is one thing
that my git-exproll script did.

I'm certainly not opposed, and this could certainly be done in an
additive way (i.e., after this series). I think the current approach has
nice properties, but I could also see "roll-up all packs that have
mtimes after xyz timestamp" being useful.

It would even be possible to reuse a lot of the geometric repack
machinery. Having a separate path to arrange packs by their mtimes and
determine the "split" at pack whose mtime is nearest the provided one
would do exactly what you want.

(As a side-note, reading the original threads about your git-exproll was
quite humbling, since it turns out all of the problems I thought were
hard had already been discussed eight years ago!)

Thanks,
Taylor