Re: [PATCH] fast-import: implement --min-pack-size parameter

2016-04-22 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 02:42:25AM +, Eric Wong wrote: > With many incremental imports, small packs become highly > inefficient due to the need to readdir scan and load many > indices to locate even a single object. Frequent repacking and > consolidation may be prohibitively expensive in term

[PATCH] fast-import: implement --min-pack-size parameter

2016-04-22 Thread Eric Wong
With many incremental imports, small packs become highly inefficient due to the need to readdir scan and load many indices to locate even a single object. Frequent repacking and consolidation may be prohibitively expensive in terms of disk I/O, especially in large repositories where the initial pa