Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive

From: Harvey Harrison <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:30:59 -0800

Wow

/usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250

23266.37user 581.04system 7:41:25elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (419835major+123275804minor)pagefaults 0swaps

-r--r--r-- 1 hharrison hharrison  29091872 2007-12-06 07:26
pack-1d46ca030c3d6d6b95ad316deb922be06b167a3d.idx
-r--r--r-- 1 hharrison hharrison 324094684 2007-12-06 07:26
pack-1d46ca030c3d6d6b95ad316deb922be06b167a3d.pack

That extra delta depth really does make a difference.  Just over a
300MB pack in the end, for all gcc branches/tags as of last night.

Cheers,

Harvey