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Re: git packs

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Nov 10, 2007, 05:13 UTC
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, bob wrote:
> When a repository is packed such as for a clone or fetch, is there just one
> pack file created that is used for the transfer?
Yes.

And modern Git is able to handle packs larger than 4GB too, assuming it is compiled using a toolchain with large file support.

Nicolas
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