From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Delete ref $frotz by moving ref file to "deleted-$frotz~ref". Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:24 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20061014153949.2994a114.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <7vr6xa91kj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200610170626.25654.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 17 11:24:27 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 1GZlBI-0006MJ-Sz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423187AbWJQJYN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423186AbWJQJYM (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:24:12 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51175 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423184AbWJQJYL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:24:11 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GZlB2-0006K0-NT for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:00 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:00 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Christian Couder wrote: >> Ref deletion is an operation that happens far far rarer than >> updates and lookups, and I deliberately chose to optimize for >> the latter. > > I think that the ref deletion usage depends on the policy of people using > git, and there may be people that delete a ref very often. > > For example, when git becomes a major SCM, there may be people working on > big projects that want to create a new branch for each new bug and then > delete the branch when the code on the bug branch has been integrated into > a new release and the bug is closed. So do not pack branches then, pack only tags. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git