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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:38:19 -0700
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Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm still interested in whether clone from a client take note of the
> pack.packSizeLimit if I set it
> on the server? Or does it use the client value?

Neither.

A clone doesn't split its pack.  It stores the entire project
as a single pack file.  If your filesystem cannot do that, the
clone fails.

-- 
Shawn.