Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Personally, I think I'd set the --combine-cruft-below-size to half of > --max-pack-size, because that guarantees that any two existing cruft > packs being considered for combining can be, and the resulting > combined cruft pack if big enough can then be ignored in the future. Yup, combine-below can be set to arbitrarily a small value, and ... > In other words, this scheme would allow you to always make progress. ... I would even think that setting it to too high a value may be a misconfiguration. As you outlined above, a half of the max-size would probably be the practical maximum for the combine-below value to avoid the issue and to always make progress.
