From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:43:04 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #04; Thu, 11)
Message-ID: <CACBZZX6pzeWBshrA17oyTte0ZfOBQaK1SvP07TnTN4=v5imsjw@mail.gmail.com>
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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.