Re: omapzoom tree broken?

Felipe Balbi
2008-09-10T19:09:15Z

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:54:15PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Looks like the pack index was corrupted; removing the one it just fetched
> and repulling has made it happier.
>
> However, it's made me unhappier. Again, can we please have it accessible
> via the git protocol. Or at least can whoever looks after that tree avoid
> repacking it except maybe once a month?
>
> Why? I don't want to have to keep on fetching 300 odd MB of pack files
> every time I pull from this tree. 10 minutes into my current pull and
> I only have 80MB... another 220MB to go. IOW, 45 minutes for a pull.
>
> This really isn't practical.

Sure, repacking should be avoided on servers for that. Do what you want
with your local copy and repack sure helps making git a bit faster,
still it's not good for the server side since we'd have to pull the
packs again and again.

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balbi