[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [sr #107505] Please reduce gnash git repo size

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Do you know about concurrency?  I.e. need we make the repo read-only
> > for developers when we're doing such a repack?
> 
> >From what I recall, that's not necessary.
> I think (probably a gross simplification) it creates a big pack of
> whatever's on hand, and then flips a ref (atomic rename) to make the new
> pack's objects live, and then removes the packed (and now logically
> unlinked) objects at its leisure. Any new objects that came in while
> packing are simply not packed.

I guess I'll try on a copy of the Gnash repo.

It seems there's some kind of special condition in that project
though, I don't get nearly the same ratio on my projects (admittedly
not nearly as active either :)).

-- 
Sylvain