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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> I don't know how well multiple packs will work with the current git
> protocol...

Then I wonder why you are making this observation ... ;-)

In any case, I suspect this would be helped to a certain degree
by the pack-object that reuses delta data from existing packs,
if your repository is reasonably packed.