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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:44:37 +1200
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On 5/8/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> It shouldn't.  The existing packfile is designed to make "git
> log" very efficient, by making it cheap to look only at the
> commit message and ancestry information.
>
> The objects are sorted first by type in the pack with the
> existing code already, and commits come first.  Try this.

Thanks for the explanation! My ignorance in the pre-coffee stage of
Monday is... exemplary. I should know better than assume that there
are trivial optimizations for git that I can come up with ;-)

I guess I should get more into the pack stuff and educate myself --
everyone's having fun with it... grumble, will have to brush up my C
to get to play.

cheers,


martin