David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> OK with git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git we have >> >> - a 209MB pack with --aggressive >> - 1.3GB with --depth=50 >> - 1.3GB with --window=4000 --depth=32 >> - 1.3GB with --depth=20 >> - 821MB with --depth=250 for commits --before=2.years.ago, --depth=50 >> for the rest >> >> So I don't think we should go with your following patch because the >> size explosion is just too much no matter how faster it could be. An >> immediate action could be just make --depth=250 configurable and let >> people deal with it. A better option is something like "3 repack >> steps" you described where we pack deep depth first, mark .keep, pack >> shallower depth and combine them all into one. >> >> I'm not really happy with --depth=250 producing 209MB while >> --depth=250 --before=2.year.ago a 800MB pack. It looks wrong (or maybe >> I did something wrong) > > That does look strange: Emacs has a history of more than 30 years. But > the Git mirror is quite younger. Maybe one needs to make sure to use > the author date rather than the commit date here?
Another thing: did you really use --depth=250 here or did you use --aggressive? It may be that the latter also sets other options? -- David Kastrup -- 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
