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Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow

From
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date
Dec 14, 2006, 15:45 UTC
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<458171B7.1020702@xs4all.nl>
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<200612141518.05770.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins escreveu:
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> On Thursday 2006 December 14 13:53, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> This seems to happen if your repository consists of many large binary
>> files, especially many large binary files of several versions that do
>> not deltify well against each other. Perhaps it's worth adding gzip
> 
> It's actually just every released patch to the linux kernel ever issued.  
> Almost entirely ASCII and every revision (save the first) created by patching 
> the previous.

I just noticed that git-fetch now runs git-show-ref --verify on every tag it encounters. This seems to slow down fetch over here.

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  2. Andreas EricssonDec 14, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 14, 2006
  4. Andreas EricssonDec 14, 2006
  5. Geert BoschDec 14, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonDec 14, 2006
  7. Andy ParkinsDec 14, 2006
  8. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 14, 2006
  9. Andy ParkinsDec 14, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinDec 14, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2006
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  13. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2006
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