From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:36:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow bulk import to be packed
Message-ID: <7vlkbkfuda.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vps0wfv8g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> This will use fast-import as a backend to dump blobs resulting
> from a huge initial import into a packfile.

This needs major work to be usable.

Although fast-import knows object name of each blob, being a
quick-and-dirty patch, git-add does not ask for it and still
computes the blob names by itself.  The only thing this
proof-of-concept patch buys is that the resulting object
database is packed, and does not get loose objects.