From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:45:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow
Message-ID: <458171B7.1020702@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200612141518.05770.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins escreveu:
> 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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