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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: tag storage format
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:46:01 +0200
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Uri Moszkowicz <uri@4refs.com> writes:

> Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file block text or binary format
> once a large number of tags becomes present in a repository.

This is what git pack-refs (called by git gc) does (by putting the refs
in .git/packed-refs).

Andreas.

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