Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #04; Thu, 11)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2012, 15:43 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX6pzeWBshrA17oyTte0ZfOBQaK1SvP07TnTN4=v5imsjw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> * jk/peel-ref (2012-10-04) 4 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2012-10-08 at 4adfa2f)
>>  + upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements
>>  + peel_ref: check object type before loading
>>  + peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
>>  + peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
>>
>>  Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the
>>  other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the
>>  branches and tags that are available in the repository.
>
> FWIW I have this deployed at work for a userbase of a few hundred
> users, none of whom have had any issues with it, it does speed things
> up a lot though.

Thanks.