From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:28:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] allow git-svn fetching to work using serf
Message-ID: <20130707002804.GF30132@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <51D7C47D.5070700@acm.org>

David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 7/5/2013 8:41 PM, Kyle McKay wrote:

>> Daniel Shahaf has suggested also setting
>> "servers:global:http-bulk-updates=on".
>
> I have a patch that does this, but since turning on bulk updates has
> a possible performance penalty, I prefer your approach. 

I assume that's because http-bulk-updates defeats caching.  If so,
makes sense.

Please forgive my ignorance: is there a bug filed about ra_serf's
misbehavior here?  Is it eventually going to be fixed and this is
just a workaround, or is the growth in temp file use something we'd
live with permanently?

Thanks,
Jonathan