Comment 15 for bug 736001

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 736001] [NEW] Re-packing happens at inconvenient times and blocks further operations

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:13 AM, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> I wonder if we want to just have a maximum-auto-repack setting, with a
> default of something like 10k revisions. And a possible warning if we
> think we should repack more than that.
>
> We might consider even defaulting to more like 1k revisions.

The mega repack also happened to me - and saved about 30MB of disk -
the incrementally new content packed into just a couple of MB on top
of the primary pack.

-Rob