From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:45:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Teach builtin-clone to pack refs
Message-ID: <7v8x0agtdn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803220210.30957.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> Although most of the speedup from current "next" is achieved by the
> builtin-clone work, there is still a considerable additional improvement
> from writing all refs to a single file instead of writing one file per
> ref. I expect the performance improvement to be much bigger on platforms
> with slower filesystem (aka. Windows).

At some point, additional speedups are hidden in the noise.

Not writing reflogs is a _different_ behaviour from the previous, but I
suspect it might even be an improvement.  When you have 1000 remote
branches, probably most of them are not even active.