Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: search 4 directories to improve statistic of gc hint

From: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:20:44 +0200

On Windows, git-gui suggests running the garbage collector if it finds
1 or more files in .git/objects/42 (as opposed to 8 files on other
platforms). The probability of that happening if the repo contains
about 100 loose objects is 32%. The probability for the same to happen
when searching 4 directories is only 8%, which is bit more reasonable.

Also remove $objects_limit from the message, because we already know
that we are above (or close to) that limit. Telling the user about
that number does not really give him any useful information.

The following octave script shows the probability for at least m*q
objects to be found in q subdirectories of .git/objects if n is the
total number of objects.

q = 4;
m = [1 2 8];
n = 0:10:2000;

P = zeros(length(n), length(m));
for k = 1:length(n)
        P(k, :) = 1-binocdf(q*m-1, n(k), q/(256-q));
end
plot(n, P);

n \ q   1       4
50      18%     1%
100     32%     8%
200     54%     39%
500     86%     96%

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
---

 git-gui/lib/database.tcl |   21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/lib/database.tcl b/git-gui/lib/database.tcl
index a18ac8b..d4e0bed 100644
--- a/git-gui/lib/database.tcl
+++ b/git-gui/lib/database.tcl
@@ -89,27 +89,26 @@ proc do_fsck_objects {} {
 }
 
 proc hint_gc {} {
-	set object_limit 8
+	set ndirs 1
+	set limit 8
 	if {[is_Windows]} {
-		set object_limit 1
+		set ndirs 4
+		set limit 1
 	}
 
-	set objects_current [llength [glob \
-		-directory [gitdir objects 42] \
+	set count [llength [glob \
 		-nocomplain \
-		-tails \
 		-- \
-		*]]
+		[gitdir objects 4\[0-[expr {$ndirs-1}]\]/*]]]
 
-	if {$objects_current >= $object_limit} {
-		set objects_current [expr {$objects_current * 250}]
-		set object_limit    [expr {$object_limit    * 250}]
+	if {$count >= $limit * $ndirs} {
+		set objects_current [expr {$count * 256/$ndirs}]
 		if {[ask_popup \
 			[mc "This repository currently has approximately %i loose objects.
 
-To maintain optimal performance it is strongly recommended that you compress the database when more than %i loose objects exist.
+To maintain optimal performance it is strongly recommended that you compress the database.
 
-Compress the database now?" $objects_current $object_limit]] eq yes} {
+Compress the database now?" $objects_current]] eq yes} {
 			do_gc
 		}
 	}
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