From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:01:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack
Message-ID: <49EF93CA.20207@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904221011340.6741@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> Now that the GSoC projects have been announced I can give you the good
>> news that one of our two projects is to optimise this stage in
>> git-daemon; I'm hoping we can get it down to being almost as cheap as
>> the workaround you described in your post. I'll certainly be using your
>> repository as a test case :-)
>
> Please keep me in the loop as much as possible. I'd prefer we're not in
> disagreement over the implementation only after final patches are posted
> to the list.

Thanks Nico, given your close working knowledge of the pack-objects
code this will be very much appreciated. Perhaps you can first help
out by telling me what you have to say about moving object enumeration
from upload-pack to pack-objects?

Cheers!
Sam.