From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:45:12 GMT Subject: Re: push race Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20121016053750.GA22281@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jeff King wrote: > I suspect a site that is heavy on alternates is invoking the index-pack > code path more frequently than necessary (e.g., history gets pushed to > one forked repo, then when it goes to the next one, we may not share the > ref that tells the client we already have the object and receive it a > second time). I suppose we could do the way unpack-objects does: prefer present objects and drop the new identical ones, no memcmp. Objects that are not bases, or are ref-delta bases, can be safely dropped. ofs-delta bases may lead to rewriting the pack. Do-able but not sure it's worth the effort. -- Duy