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Re: git gc and kernel.org

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2009, 07:51 UTC
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On 10/20/2009 04:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> As to (1), I think it is reasonable to do some sort of "gc" in
> receive-pack, and while I recall that Linus was violently against the
> idea, I personally think it is reasonable to run update-server-info
> ourselves at the same time without needing the hook, even if the
> repository is never going to be served over dumb http [*1*].  At one
> point, update-server-info used to compute a lot more than what we
> currently compute and it made some sense to oppose against it on
> performance ground.
>
> But these days it only lists the refs and packs and does nothing else; the
> performance impact should be immeasurable and it adds only two files to
> the repository.  It cannot be a big deal, unless you oppose to http
> transport on a non-technical ground.

I'm obviously happy with making it a non-default option; we can enable it sitewide on kernel.org.

However, git update-server-info seems to take almost no time even in very large repos.

	-hpa
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Message 3 of 18 in “git gc and kernel.org”
  1. H. Peter AnvinOct 20, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  3. H. Peter AnvinOct 20, 2009
  4. Johan HerlandOct 20, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreOct 20, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 20, 2009
  8. receive-pack: run "gc --auto" and optionally "update-server-info"Junio C Hamano, Oct 20, 2009
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 21, 2009
  10. Johannes SixtOct 21, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  13. Johannes SixtOct 21, 2009
  14. Jan KrügerOct 21, 2009
  15. 1/2 gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboaseJunio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  16. 2/2 receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet " and optionally "update-server-info"Junio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  17. Mikael MagnussonOct 20, 2009
  18. H. Peter AnvinOct 21, 2009

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