feat(git): add periodic full repack to shrink mirrors and snapshots#323
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Mirrors are maintained by incremental fetches, each of which packs only its own objects with a narrow delta window. Over time this accumulates suboptimal, cross-pack-redundant deltas. The existing geometric repack consolidates packs but reuses those deltas, so it never recovers the redundancy. Add a separate full repack (git repack -a -d -f --window --depth) that re-selects deltas across all objects, materially shrinking the mirror and the snapshots derived from it, in exchange for significant one-time CPU. It runs on its own slow cadence (full-repack-interval) alongside the frequent geometric repack, and is disabled by default. Window, depth, and timeout are configurable. Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com> Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-019eae3d-a2fd-70ca-80fe-a7536ec6748c
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Mirrors are kept current with frequent incremental fetches, each packing its objects with a narrow delta window, so they accumulate redundant deltas over time. The existing geometric repack only merges packs and reuses those deltas, never recovering the waste.
This adds a full repack (
git repack -a -d -f --window --depth) that recomputes deltas across all objects, shrinking the mirror — and therefore every snapshot derived from it, since a snapshot is essentially the mirror's packfiles. Runs on a slow cadence, separate from the frequent geometric repack, and disabled by default.Design
Repository.RepackFullruns the delta-recomputing repack; existingRepack(geometric) is unchanged. Both share arunRepackhelper.full-repack-intervalschedules it independently ofrepack-interval;full-repack-timeout(1h) is configurable. Window (100) and depth (50) are constants — tuning them shifts the size/CPU tradeoff in ways that need re-benchmarking, so they are not exposed.operation(repackvsrepack_full).Validation
RepackFull(config fallbacks) and scheduling;go build,go test,golangci-lintpass.go-squaresnapshot → 5993 MB → 3818 MB (~36%) in ~25 min, inside the 1h timeout. A playpen can't show this — a fresh mirror lacks the accumulated fragmentation.