From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:22:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Git benchmarks at OpenOffice.org wiki
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:
> 
> 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