On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:24:28 -0400 wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) wrote:
> I've got a Git repository that I use to log updates to system files. > Not things in /var that change every day, but configuration files in > /etc, binaries in /usr, etc. Of course, the repository is large, 9 or > 10 GB now. > > I've just discovered that setting core.bigFileThreshold = 10k speeds > up garbage collection and repacking tremendously, like from 9 hours to > 1/2 hour. This works well in this situation, because files that are > larger than 10k are almost all binaries, and don't benefit from delta > compression. And it turns out that delta compression takes a lot of > time if you have a lot of data. The thread ensued after re-posting to the MsysGit mailing list of a mail recently posted here is interesting in this regard [1] as it discusses various options affecting packing and delta compression. 1. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/msysgit/ckdNSu_-w2w/discussion -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
