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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>
Cc: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail•com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>,
	Christian Jaeger <chrjae@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw"
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:47:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzjlk4atj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AeZWPz=39ySQr9MrSUiLyJDQbs02sumS9VjbbGWzP9pw@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:35:06 +0700")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com> writes:

> For old projects, commits older than 1-2 years is probably less often
> accessed and could use some aggressive packing.

I used to repack older part of history manually with a deeper depth,
mark the result with the .keep bit, and then repack the whole thing
again to have the remainder in a shallower depth.  Something like:

	git rev-list --objects v1.5.3 |
        git pack-objects --depth=128 --delta-base-offset pack

would give me the first pack (in real life, I would use a larger
window size like 4096), and then after placing the resulting .pack
and .idx files along with a .keep file in .git/objects/pack/,
running "git repack -a -d" to pack the rest.

> This still hits git-blame badly. We could even make sure all
> objects "on the blame surface" have short delta chain. But that
> may be pushing pack-objects too much.

Yes, you can do a similar trick by blaming all the paths that ever
existed in the project, parse its --porcelain output to learn all
the commits and paths involved, to find the objects that need
quicker access.  Pack such objects in a pack with a shallow depth,
tentatively mark that pack with .keep, repack the remainder with a
deep depth, remove .keep from the first pack and mark the new pack
with .keep to prevent it from getting repacked, or something like
that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18  7:25 git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw" Christian Jaeger
2014-02-18  8:55 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-18  9:45   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-18 10:25     ` David Kastrup
2014-02-18 15:59       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-18 20:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-18 22:46           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-19  0:10             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-19  0:33               ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-19  8:38                 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-02-19  9:01                   ` David Kastrup
2014-02-19 10:24                     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-19 10:14                   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-20  4:09                     ` Christian Jaeger
2014-02-20 16:48                     ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 17:06                       ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 18:07                         ` David Kastrup
2014-02-19 18:59                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-20 23:35                     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-21  0:32                       ` Christian Jaeger
2014-02-21 17:36                         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-21  5:09                       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-21 17:47                       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-02-24  9:27                         ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-02-22  0:36           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-22  6:20             ` David Kastrup
2014-02-22  8:53               ` David Kastrup
2014-02-22  9:14                 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-22 13:00                   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-22  9:57               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-18 16:43     ` Christian Jaeger

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