From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: Start handling references internally as a sorted in-memory list Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:09:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20060912010930.GA18639@tuatara.stupidest.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 12 03:09:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMwmN-0006Wv-CM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:09:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965229AbWILBJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:09:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965230AbWILBJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:09:32 -0400 Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.208]:29854 "HELO smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965229AbWILBJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:09:32 -0400 Received: (qmail 17147 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2006 01:09:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stupidest.org) (cwedgwood@sbcglobal.net@71.202.63.228 with login) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2006 01:09:31 -0000 Received: by tuatara.stupidest.org (Postfix, from userid 10000) id 1C9F0180B3F5; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:09:30 -0700 (PDT) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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/