From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:12:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Sparse clones (Was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] upload-pack: support subtree packing)
Message-ID: <AANLkTiktuQV+jEOy+Shm13-LVc0W-d8qsGS6XuxyTW44@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=WjBHYngSDgowD2+0FT3hG+oDYefp2aUostV3U@mail.gmail.com>

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