From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc2
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.