Re: Git benchmarks at OpenOffice.org wiki

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: May 7, 2007, 15:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705070821260.3802@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5vl6oum.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Keeping fetched and updated refs in core and write a packed refs
> out in one go in git-fetch--tool (and later, git-fetch all in C)
> would be much simpler if we do not have to worry about existing
> refs (aka "git clone" special case); I am not sure if packing
> refs is desirable in general for incremental "git-fetch".

Fair enough. It's true that for the general case of "git fetch", it's much less obvious how to keep things packed.

So maybe the right thing really *is* to just add the

	git pack-refs --all --prune

to the git-clone wrapper.

		Linus