Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2014, #07; Fri, 28)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:04:55 -0700

Duy Nguyen <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> * nd/gc-aggressive (2014-03-17) 4 commits
>>  - gc --aggressive: three phase repacking
>>  - gc --aggressive: make --depth configurable
>>  - pack-objects: support --keep
>>  - environment.c: fix constness for odb_pack_keep()
>
> Using --before=1.year.ago my way does not keep all recent chains short
> because commit time is unreliable. But even with better recent object
> selection, the performance gain is still within noise level. I suggest
> we keep " gc --aggressive: make --depth configurable" and drop the
> rest.

I think the three-phase thing may not be so well conceived or
cooked, but the other three looked like reasonable changes, although
it would have been easier to say so if "pack-objects --keep" were
done without a new buffer of size PATH_MAX ;-)

Let's do the const and --depth and discard the other two.