From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:09:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Start handling references internally as a sorted in-memory list
Message-ID: <20060912010930.GA18639@tuatara.stupidest.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609111632050.27779@g5.osdl.org>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:37:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> This also adds some very rudimentary support for the notion of packed
> refs.

Neat.  Although git makes some repos nice and small the refs take a
lot of space when people use a lot of them:

3.5M  glibc/glibc-cvs.git/.git/refs/
11M   gcc-git/gcc.git/.git/refs/