Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jan 8, 2007, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701080943191.4964@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070107203120.GA4970@spearce.org>

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> > Hmm... Perhaps it should be possible to push git updates as a pack
> > file only? I mean, the pack file would stay packed = never individual
> > files and never 256 directories?
> 
> Latest Git does this.  If the server is later than 1.4.3.3 then
> the receive-pack process can actually store the pack file rather
> than unpacking it into loose objects.  The downside is that it will
> copy any missing base objects onto the end of a thin pack to make
> it not-thin.

No. There are no thin packs for pushes. And IMHO it should stay that way exactly to avoid this little inconvenience on servers.

The fetch case is a different story of course.

Nicolas