On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > I also wonder if we would be helped by another "repack" mode that > coalesces small packs into a single one with minimum overhead, and > run that often from "gc --auto", so that we do not end up having to > have 50 packfiles. > > When we have 2 or more small and young packs, we could: > > - iterate over idx files for these packs to enumerate the objects > to be packed, replacing read_object_list_from_stdin() step; > > - always choose to copy the data we have in these existing packs, > instead of doing a full prepare_pack(); and > > - use the order the objects appear in the original packs, bypassing > compute_write_order().
Isn't it easier and cheaper to create the "master index", something like bup does? -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
