From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] receive-pack: Add receive.objectCountLimit to refuse push with too many objects
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In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik_taBK+=nh+0WEUjp3AV_fC7e_dg@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> If we are going to put limits in, does it make sense to try and push
> these limits back to pack-objects in a more detailed way? You talked
> about depth of history, or size of pack. pack-objects could
> approximate both.

I think the receiving end switches between index-pack and unpack-objects
based on the object count, but if we can add a protocol extension to carry
these estimates from the sender, we would be much better off. A large push
with a small number of objects would want to keep everything in a pack,
for example, but currently there is no way to do so.