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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:07:06 +0100
> From: Sven Axelsson <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs <address@hidden>
> 
> >> 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.

Which was why I interpreted them to mean that gc runs repack.

Stephen can now be pissed off by himself.