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Re: worktrees vs. alternates

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MFMartin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date
May 16, 2018, 19:03 UTC
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On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 03:01:13 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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> On 05/16/18 14:26, Martin Fick wrote:
> > If you are going to keep the unreferenced objects around
> > forever, it might be better to keep them around in
> > packed
> > form?
> 
> I'm undecided about that. On the one hand this does create
> lots of small files and inevitably causes (some)
> performance degradation. On the other hand, I don't want
> to keep useless objects in the pack, because that would
> also cause performance degradation for people cloning the
> "mother repo." If my assumptions on any of that are
> incorrect, I'm happy to learn more.

My suggestion is to use science, not logic or hearsay. :) i.e. test it!

-Martin
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