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From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:47:56 -0600
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Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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On Monday, September 26, 2011 06:41:04 am Christian Couder 
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Martin Fick 
<mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > A coworker of mine pointed out to me that a simple
> > 
> >  git checkout
> > 
> > can also take rather long periods of time > 3 mins when
> > run on a repo with ~100K refs.
> 
> Are all these refs packed?

I think so, is there a way to find out for sure?

-Martin