Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > OK with git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git we have > > - a 209MB pack with --aggressive > - 1.3GB with --depth=50 > - 1.3GB with --window=4000 --depth=32 > - 1.3GB with --depth=20 > - 821MB with --depth=250 for commits --before=2.years.ago, --depth=50 > for the rest > > So I don't think we should go with your following patch because the > size explosion is just too much no matter how faster it could be. An > immediate action could be just make --depth=250 configurable and let > people deal with it. A better option is something like "3 repack > steps" you described where we pack deep depth first, mark .keep, pack > shallower depth and combine them all into one. > > I'm not really happy with --depth=250 producing 209MB while > --depth=250 --before=2.year.ago a 800MB pack. It looks wrong (or maybe > I did something wrong)
That does look strange: Emacs has a history of more than 30 years. But the Git mirror is quite younger. Maybe one needs to make sure to use the author date rather than the commit date here? -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
