From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Ackermann Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1360848843-12092-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 19 11:45:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7khn-0002rV-RP for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:45:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932590Ab3BSKpV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:45:21 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47793 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932339Ab3BSKpT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:45:19 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7khd-0002jZ-IA for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:45:37 +0100 Received: from proxy36.sbs.de ([194.138.39.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:45:37 +0100 Received: from th.acker by proxy36.sbs.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:45:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 194.138.39.56 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy gmail.com> writ= es: >=20 > I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while > v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6 > and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wanted to propose index v4 > as the new default version, because I guess that not many people > outside git vger are aware of it, but perhaps this approach is l= ess > drastic. It only suggest index v4 when the index size after clone hit= s > 512K limit. >=20 Is V4 really recommended for general use? Default seems to be V3 and all I found in the docs is the coresponding release not describing V4 as "experimental". (I have repos with index files > 40MiB (!) which will shrink to approx. 20MiB with V4 so using V4 would be an interessting option for m= e.) --- Thomas