Re: Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 8, 2010, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3Cp8W5wrWhL7DW736QPt7-2V-E8EAWJB5JYd1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007082320.05017.jnareb@gmail.com>

Heya,

2010/7/8 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

> By the way, rev-cache project was started mainly to make "counting
> objects" part of clone / fetch faster.  Would pack v4 offer the same
> without rev-cache?

Speaking of pack v4 features...

I remember from GitTogether08 that one hope was that the metadata would be in a different file, such that it could be retrieved separately (allowing shallow clones to create and push new commits). Is this not something that is part of the design goals for packv4?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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