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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delta compression not so effective
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:06:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWXafzN0dpyd+kdHcLU_YSmZpiNz_i2rXn_2hbMN-9Xww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d2a1852-8c84-2869-78ad-3c863f6dcaf7@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... which brought it down to 206GB in a single pack. I then ran
>     git repack -a -d -F --window=350 --depth=250
> which took it down to 203GB, where I'm at right now.

Just a hunch. s/F/f/ perhaps?  "-F" does not allow Git to recover from poor
delta-base choice the original importer may have made (and if the
original importer
used fast-import, it is known that its choice of the delta-base is suboptimal).

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-01 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-01 13:51 Delta compression not so effective Marius Storm-Olsen
2017-03-01 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-03-01 16:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-01 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-01 17:57   ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2017-03-01 18:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-01 21:08       ` Martin Langhoff
2017-03-02  0:12       ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2017-03-02  0:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-04  8:27           ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2017-03-06  1:14             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-06 13:36               ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2017-03-07  9:07             ` Thomas Braun
2017-03-01 20:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2017-03-01 23:59   ` Marius Storm-Olsen

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