Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 10, 2006, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wqjsgfx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609100756r1ece1e22m38054536a2909dd4@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Using the Mozilla repo you downloaded is not a normal situation since
> it is 100% packed. Most people are going to have a few thousand loose
> objects floating around too. Loose objects really slow things down.

When you have a few thousand loose objects you definitely should consider repacking (not "repack -a" for Mozilla case, perhaps).

We could benefit from the suggested organization of one base archive pack plus a current active pack. The core side code to help doing so was posted here which followed a discussion on how to have repack make use of it last week.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/26218/focus=26326

Any takers?

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