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From: Robert Clausecker <fuzxxl@gmail.com>
Subject: Recommended packing for HTTP repositories
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:38:42 +0100
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Hello!

I provide dumb HTTP access to a git repository on a server where I can't
enable the smart HTTP protocol. When the history of the repository
grows, should I run git repack to pack all revisions together? Would
that cause clients that just want to download a few commit to download
the whole pack? What is recommended to do?

Yours, Robert Clausecker