[elinks-dev] [patch/rfc] grafthistory: keep the downloaded pack, speed up git gc

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Jonas Fonseca <fonseca at diku.dk> writes:

>> +# Total size of .git/objects/pack/ was 90592 KiB without *.keep
>> +# and 97397 KiB with *.keep.  So *.keep reduced gc time by 70-80%
>> +# but increased disk space usage by 7.5%. 
>
> Maybe without this?

Why, is it too revealing?
I thought a user might notice the *.keep file, check where it
came from, and find those measurements.  Then make an informed
decision not to delete the file.
Or perhaps the numbers should go in the *.keep file itself?
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