Re: push race

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > I suspect a site that is heavy on alternates is invoking the index-pack
> > code path more frequently than necessary (e.g., history gets pushed to
> > one forked repo, then when it goes to the next one, we may not share the
> > ref that tells the client we already have the object and receive it a
> > second time).
> 
> I suppose we could do the way unpack-objects does: prefer present
> objects and drop the new identical ones, no memcmp. Objects that are
> not bases, or are ref-delta bases, can be safely dropped. ofs-delta
> bases may lead to rewriting the pack. Do-able but not sure it's worth
> the effort.