dist-git status

[Jim Meyering]

I wrote:
...
> The only other explanation I can come up with is that
> some packages have consistently huge commits.  For such
> packages, 1024 may be too large.

I've reconverted coreutils once again, just to see, and ended up with
a git repository of about 130MB (more than double what I expected).
That was because there were a lot of commits (but < 1024) after the
final automatic "git-repack -a -d".

Running a final
  git-repack -a -d && git-prune-packed
cut the final repository size down to 52MB.

This suggests a good way to improve git-cvsimport,
which should help improve first impressions of git :-)
I've just submitted a patch.