Re: A naive proposal for preventing loose object explosions

2013-09-06 Thread Junio C Hamano
mf...@codeaurora.org writes: Object lookups should likely not get any slower than if repack were not run, and the extra new pack might actually help find some objects quicker. In general, having an extra pack, only to keep objects that you know are available in other packs, will make _all_

Re: A naive proposal for preventing loose object explosions

2013-09-06 Thread Martin Fick
On Friday, September 06, 2013 11:19:02 am Junio C Hamano wrote: mf...@codeaurora.org writes: Object lookups should likely not get any slower than if repack were not run, and the extra new pack might actually help find some objects quicker. In general, having an extra pack, only to keep

A naive proposal for preventing loose object explosions

2013-09-05 Thread mfick
I am imagining what I consider to be a naive approach to preventing loose unreachable object explosions. It may seem a bit heavy handed at first, but every conversation so far about this issue seems to have died, so I am looking for a simple incremental improvement to what we have today. I