Changes between Version 71 and Version 72 of UsingGitWithWebKit

Timestamp:

Sep 8, 2011, 4:52:08 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

davidbarr@chromium.org

Comment:

Update suggested repack parameters from experiments

UsingGitWithWebKit

@@ -221 +221 @@
 }}}
 
-It is a good idea to do an "aggressive" gc occasionally, like so (be warned that this can take multiple hours!):
+It is a good idea to repack occasionally, like so (be warned that this can take multiple hours!):
 {{{
 # The following git-config commands are only needed on Windows AFAIK
@@ -227 +227 @@
 git config pack.windowMemory 256m
 
-# The following git-config commands achieve excellent compression without wasting effort
-git config --local pack.compression 9
-git config --local pack.aggressiveWindow 70
-
-git gc --aggressive
-
-# To avoid repacking ancient history, keep the pack resulting from and aggressive gc
+# The following commands achieve excellent compression without wasting effort and preserve low-latency reads
+ git config --local pack.compression 9
+ # If this is the first repack since setting pack.compression, add -F to the command below. If repack doesn't recognise -F, just call it without it.
+ git repack -adf --window=65 --depth=3
+
+# To avoid repacking ancient history, keep the resulting pack
 touch $(ls .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx|sed s/idx/keep/)
 }}}