Re: Sparse clones (Was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] upload-pack: support subtree packing)
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
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- Jul 28, 2010, 06:12 UTC
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Heya,
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 22:58, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that's very interesting - more than half the repo is just tree > and commit objects? Maybe that's not so shocking after all, given the > tendency in the git project to use long commit messages and relatively > short patches.
Note that in the case of the ginormous-tree this holds as well. Many small files, but in insanely deeply nested directories with insane fan-out. If you need to download all the trees you don't save that much bandwith. OTOH, I'm not only concerned about bandwidth, just being able to run 'git status' without it taking half a minute would be sweet.
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier