Re: [PATCH 4/4] Teach "git clone" to pack refs

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 16, 2008, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20080616095750.GA24116@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200806160003.06300.johan@herland.net>

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:03:06AM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

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> Yes, for many repos it does not make much sense to pack branches. But in the 
> case where the repo has many inactive branches (I have repos with 1000 
> branches where at most 5-10 are still active), I'd much rather pack all 
> branches and then later "unpack" the active ones, than write all 
> those "loose" refs as separate files onto the filesystem (e.g. in CygWin 
> *shudder*). In any case, the user normally does not work actively on 
> hundreds of branches, so the overhead of "unpacking" active branches should 
> be fairly negligible in any case.

What I was concerned about was that pack-refs would continue to pack active branches forever, because by default it repacks branches that are already packed.

However, it seems that git-gc just passes --all anyway, so it presumably is not a problem. And at the very least, clone is then consistent with the auto-gc behavior, which makes sense.

So I withdraw my complaint.

-Peff