From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:31:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: don't unpack objects Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4q7d5kwo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Are there cases where you would do 'git clone' over git native > transport and want the resulting pack expanded? No, I think the unconditional --keep is fine for clone. What to do about incremental pulls is not as clear, but I think the clone case is pretty much obvious these days. The main reason for unpacking was that packs used to be "strange". These days, packs are arguably the _common_ thing. Now, having tons and tons of small packs is probably worse than having tons and tons of individual files, but if people get used to doing occasional full repacks, that doesn't matter. Linus