From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:15:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3b26xvjo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0705090056231.18541@iabervon.org
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
>> This allows the user to regenerate the deltas in packs while doing
>> a git-gc. The user could just run git-repack -a -d -f -l after
>> running git-gc, but then the first git-repack run by git-gc is
>> a bit of waste.
>
> Maybe git-gc should have an option for "compress hard"? It seems to me
> like a two-sizes-fit-all solution would be good here; "git gc" for daily
> use, and "git gc --squeeze" for when you want to make the result as small
> as possible, with compute time not being a major factor.
I think that sounds saner and more user friendly than specific
knob to tune "window", "depth" and friends which are too
technical. It has an added attraction that we can redefine what
exactly "hard" means later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 2:54 [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta, --window, and --depth options to git-gc Theodore Ts'o
2007-05-08 3:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-08 3:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-08 3:38 ` Dana How
2007-05-08 4:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-08 13:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-08 13:28 ` [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta, --window, and --depth options to Theodore Ts'o
2007-05-08 13:28 ` [PATCH] Add pack.depth option to git-pack-objects and change default depth to 50 Theodore Ts'o
2007-05-08 13:28 ` [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc Theodore Ts'o
2007-05-08 15:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-09 5:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 8:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-09 9:02 ` Steven Grimm
2007-05-09 11:35 ` Other compression?, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 15:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 19:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-10 7:40 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-11 1:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-11 6:20 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-11 6:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-11 10:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-11 14:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-11 21:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 19:48 ` [PATCH] Add --aggressive option to 'git gc' Theodore Tso
2007-05-09 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 22:22 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-10 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-08 15:38 ` [PATCH] Add pack.depth option to git-pack-objects and change default depth to 50 Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-08 16:30 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-08 16:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08 18:09 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-08 18:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-09 13:49 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-09 14:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-08 17:07 ` Dana How
2007-05-08 17:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-09 5:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-08 15:30 ` [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta, --window, and --depth options to Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-08 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-08 23:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
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