From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Teach "git clone" to pack refs
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:57:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080616095750.GA24116@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806160003.06300.johan@herland.net>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:03:06AM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> Yes, for many repos it does not make much sense to pack branches. But in the
> case where the repo has many inactive branches (I have repos with 1000
> branches where at most 5-10 are still active), I'd much rather pack all
> branches and then later "unpack" the active ones, than write all
> those "loose" refs as separate files onto the filesystem (e.g. in CygWin
> *shudder*). In any case, the user normally does not work actively on
> hundreds of branches, so the overhead of "unpacking" active branches should
> be fairly negligible in any case.
What I was concerned about was that pack-refs would continue to pack
active branches forever, because by default it repacks branches that are
already packed.
However, it seems that git-gc just passes --all anyway, so it presumably
is not a problem. And at the very least, clone is then consistent with
the auto-gc behavior, which makes sense.
So I withdraw my complaint.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-15 14:02 [PATCH 0/4] Teach "git clone" to pack refs Johan Herland
2008-06-15 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] Incorporate fetched packs in future object traversal Johan Herland
2008-06-15 14:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] Move pack_refs() and friends into libgit Johan Herland
2008-06-15 17:52 ` Jeff King
2008-06-15 21:27 ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] " Johan Herland
2008-06-15 14:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs Johan Herland
2008-06-15 17:54 ` Jeff King
2008-06-15 18:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-15 23:16 ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] " Johan Herland
2008-06-15 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] Teach "git clone" to pack refs Johan Herland
2008-06-15 17:56 ` Jeff King
2008-06-15 22:03 ` Johan Herland
2008-06-16 9:57 ` Jeff King [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-22 1:10 [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Teach builtin-clone " Johan Herland
2008-04-14 6:10 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/3] Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-14 8:00 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-14 8:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] Teach "git clone" to pack refs Johan Herland
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