From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:56:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pack-refs --all
Message-ID: <7vlknqintp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610081401000.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> This changes 'git-pack-refs' to pack only tags by default.
>
> Since there is not really a high cost attached, why not migrate towards 
> only-packed-refs? (Of course, this means that git-update-ref should learn 
> to update in-place)?

It indeed is tempting and I was tempted to do that and unify
that with ref-log when we were talking about packed refs before
I saw Linus's initial implementation.