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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Start handling references internally as a sorted in-memory list
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:09:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060912010930.GA18639@tuatara.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609111632050.27779@g5.osdl.org>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:37:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> This also adds some very rudimentary support for the notion of packed
> refs.

Neat.  Although git makes some repos nice and small the refs take a
lot of space when people use a lot of them:

3.5M  glibc/glibc-cvs.git/.git/refs/
11M   gcc-git/gcc.git/.git/refs/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11 19:03 Allow multiple "git_path()" uses Linus Torvalds
2006-09-11 23:37 ` Start handling references internally as a sorted in-memory list Linus Torvalds
2006-09-11 23:50   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-11 23:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-12  1:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-12  1:09   ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2006-09-12  3:10   ` Add support for negative refs Linus Torvalds
2006-09-12  3:17     ` Make ref resolution saner Linus Torvalds
2006-09-12  5:36       ` Jeff King
2006-09-12 14:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-18  7:25   ` [RFC] git-pack-refs --prune Junio C Hamano
2006-09-18 16:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-18 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:06         ` [PATCH 1/5] symbolit-ref: fix resolve_ref conversion Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:06         ` [PATCH 2/5] Add callback data to for_each_ref() family Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:06         ` [PATCH 3/5] Tell between packed, unpacked and symbolic refs Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:06         ` [PATCH 4/5] pack-refs: do not pack " Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21  7:06         ` [PATCH 5/5] git-pack-refs --prune Junio C Hamano
2006-09-21 15:19         ` [RFC] " Linus Torvalds
2006-09-22  4:57           ` Junio C Hamano

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