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Re: git pack-objects run amok

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at elastic dot org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
Cc: overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:59:52 -0500
Subject: Re: git pack-objects run amok
References: <20120227060307.GA17916@ednor.casa.cgf.cx><20120228192835.GE28976@elastic.org><87pqcyloqh.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

Hi, Jim -

> You can reduce the effect of the requests that provoked that by
> running "git gc" on repositories for which "git count-objects"
> reports more than a few megabytes.  [...]

One problem we've encountered in the past when doing git gc/repack was
corruption of the gcc-svn repository for gcc, so we've shied away from
that.

- FChE

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