From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:49:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [CORRECTED PATCH] git-fetch-pack: avoid unnecessary zero packing
Message-ID: <7vmzl6r78e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181049050.17201@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Ok, this should be the trivially fixed (famous last words) patch, which 
> should correct the case where we don't have a local name for the remote 
> ref at all.
>
> If you already applied the previous patch, you just need to fix the

No, I haven't (not my git day today).

It strikes me that we could walk from our refs, depth reasonably
limited to say 20 or so commit chain and/or last 5 days of
commit time, to see if any of the remotes are reachable from our
refs and omit issuing "want" quite cheaply.  Do you think that
would be a worthy change to make things more efficient?