From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:05:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add --create-cache to repack
Message-ID: <7vk4hmbyuo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimuW-7D4YA2jeF+y4DPE=CdqtL713MQK+1Gtp-d@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Using this for object enumeration shaves almost 1 minute off server
> packing time; the clone dropped from 3m28s to 2m29s.  That is close to
> what I was getting with the cached pack idea, but the network transfer
> stayed the small 376 MiB.

I like this result.

The amount of transfer being that small was something I didn't quite
expect, though.  Doesn't it indicate that our pathname based object
clustering heuristics is not as effective as we hoped?