From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:39:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47616044.7070504@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fjrj9k$n6k$1@ger.gmane.org>
Paolo Bonzini schrieb:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> On Dec 12, 2007 10:48 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>>> In the mean time you might have to use only one thread and lots of
>>> memory to repack the gcc repo, or find the perfect memory allocator to
>>> be used with Git. After all, packing the whole gcc history to around
>>> 230MB is quite a stunt but it requires sufficient resources to
>>> achieve it. Fortunately, like Linus said, such a wholesale repack is not
>>> something that most users have to do anyway.
>>
>> Is there an alternative to "git repack -a -d" that repacks everything
>> but the first pack?
>
> That would be a pretty good idea for big repositories. If I were to
> implement it, I would actually add a .git/config option like
> pack.permanent so that more than one pack could be made permanent; then
> to repack really really everything you'd need "git repack -a -a -d".
It's already there: If you have a pack .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.pack, then
"touch .git/objects/pack/pack-foo.keep" marks the pack as precious.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-07 23:05 Something is broken in repack Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 1:27 ` [PATCH] pack-objects: fix delta cache size accounting Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 1:46 ` Something is broken in repack Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 2:04 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 2:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 3:29 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 3:37 ` David Brown
2007-12-08 4:22 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 4:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 5:01 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 5:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 3:48 ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-08 2:22 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08 3:44 ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-08 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-09 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-09 15:19 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-09 18:25 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 1:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-10 2:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08 2:56 ` David Brown
2007-12-10 19:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-10 20:05 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 20:16 ` Morten Welinder
2007-12-11 2:25 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 2:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-11 3:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 11:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-11 12:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-11 12:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-11 3:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 5:25 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 5:29 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 7:01 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 7:34 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 13:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 15:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 15:36 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 16:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 16:21 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-12 5:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12 8:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-14 16:18 ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-12 15:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12 16:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-12 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-12 16:42 ` David Miller
2007-12-12 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-12 17:12 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-14 16:12 ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-14 16:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-14 16:59 ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-13 13:32 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-13 15:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-13 16:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-13 16:39 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-12-14 1:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 6:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-14 6:24 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-14 8:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-14 9:01 ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-14 10:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 10:52 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-14 13:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12 16:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-13 7:32 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-14 16:03 ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-11 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-11 17:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 17:24 ` David Miller
2007-12-11 17:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 20:26 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 18:43 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 18:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-11 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-11 20:34 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 17:28 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-11 13:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 6:01 ` Sean
2007-12-11 6:20 ` Jon Smirl
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