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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:27:30 +0200
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On 2009-03-18 17:01 (+0100), Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> The default was not to change the window or depth at all. As
>> suggested by Jon Smirl, Linus Torvalds and others, default to
>> 
>> 	--window=250 --depth=250

> Guess what. This is still unresolved, and yet somebody else had to be
> bitten by 'git gc --aggressive' being everything but aggressive.

Pieter de Bie's tests seem to suggest that usually --window=50
--depth=50 gives about the same results than with higher values:

    http://vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/06/git-repack-parameters.html

I don't understand the issue very well myself so I really can't say what
would be a/the good value. Anyway, I agree that it would be nice if "git
gc --aggressive" were aggressive and a user wouldn't need to know about
"git repack" and its cryptical low-levelish options.