From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:03:16 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org and GIT tree rebuilding
Message-ID: <200506261703.16862.mason@suse.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506261652.59373.mason@suse.com>

On Sunday 26 June 2005 16:52, Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> > 	git-rev-list --object end ^start > object-list
> >
> >  - Pack that list of objects into an "object pack":
> >
> > 	git-pack-objects out < object-list
>
> Without having read the code, the big thing that hurt performance in my
> early packed file work was compressing the whole packed file instead of
> individual sub-objects.  It takes more room to compress each object, but
> when I compressed the whole thing read performance was quite bad.

Sorry, fat fingered the send key...

The hard links were the biggest problem with my packed file patches, I think 
the dynamic lookup in a separate packed file index is the best way to go.

-chris