Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Sven Axelsson]

On 7 January 2014 19:47, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Using `git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250` as mentioned
>> earlier in the conversation brings the .git folder down to 211 Mb for
>> me.
>
> That's basically what git gc --aggressive does.

Looking at the source for git-gc I see that you are indeed correct.
Specifically, `git gc --aggressive` will run `git repack -d -l -f
--depth=250 --window=250`, among other things. Maybe this setting is
more appropriate: using the -a flag can give a better pack, but may
cause extra network traffic when fetching the repo over a dumb
protocol. All this can be found in tha man pages.

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