From: Karl Hasselström Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:34:28 GMT Subject: Re: StGIT repository not clonable? Message-ID: <20061111223428.GB20192@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: On 2006-11-11 21:59:32 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > I've never packed it. IIRC, there was some advise in some GIT > document or e-mail saying that you shouldn't pack if the export is > over a dumb protocol. That's good for people pulling regularly but > bad for cloning. It's _extremely_ bad when cloning. There's a separate HTTP request for each object in the repository, which means lots of time and lots of web server load. It's just about doable to clone the StGIT repository now because it's so small. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com