Subject: Re: git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw"

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:59:34 -0800

Philippe Vaucher <[email-masked]> writes:

>> fwiw this is the thread that added --depth=250
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94565/focus=94626
>
> This post is quite interesting:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637

Yes, it most clearly says that --depth=250 was *not* a
recommendation, with technical background to explain why such a long
delta chain is a bad idea.