Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc2

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 24, 2005, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q61suhi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511241037400.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> (This is in no way really fundamental, and the server could cache the 
> packs it generates for initial clones, but that isn't implemented yet, and 
> probably won't be for some times).

Performance perceived by cloners is helped by

    $ mkdir -p .git/pack-cache
    $ git-rev-list --objects --all | git-pack-objects .git/pack-cache/pack

on the server side. This exact example of preparing by the repository maintainer is optimizing for a wrong case, and I do not think it is worth doing in practice, but this will give you the lower bound when server side cache is implemented to do it on demand.