Re: Why does send-pack call pack-objects for all remote refs?

From: Nasser Grainawi <nasser@codeaurora.org>
Date: Dec 12, 2015, 04:15 UTC
Message-ID: <EC1A4F48-729B-4DC5-ADB4-C0BEAE104908@codeaurora.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151210041941.GA4056@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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> On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:19 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 05:34:43PM +0000, Daniel Koverman wrote:
> 
>> It is also good to know that 2000 remote refs is insane. The lower
>> hanging fruit here sounds like trimming that to a reasonable
>> number, so I'll try that approach first.
> 
> It's definitely a lot, but it's not unheard of. The git project has over
> 500 tags. That's not 2000, but you're within an order of magnitude.
> 
> I have seen repositories with 20,000+ tags. I consider that a bit more
> ridiculous, but it does work in practice.
>

We have one at $DAY_JOB with 400,000+ refs. It presents some issues, but Martin has raised those with the community and it works pretty well now.

Ref advertisement is still a pain...

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