From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:47:35 GMT
Subject: Re: When to repack?
Message-ID: <20080229114735.GA17416@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net>

On 2008-02-29 10:55:41 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:

> There's advantage to repacking a repository after using
> git-fast-import. If that repacked repository is then git-pushed to
> another, is there any point in repacking the other afterwards? I'm
> guessing not, but just checking.

No, there isn't. The pack is essentially sent unmodified over the
wire. (IIRC, packs were originally conceived as a way of reducing
transfer bandwidth, and were later adopted for on-disk storage as
well. But I might be mistaken.)

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle