Re: [PATCH] fix for "index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code"

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Oct 20, 2008, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810201525540.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081020192051.GA21770@fiberbit.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Marco Roeland wrote:

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> Op maandag 20 oktober 2008 om 21:14 uur schreef Marco Roeland het volgende:
> 
> > This is on Debian 'sid' with an AMD64 architecture.
> > 
> > I've put the whole ".git" directory (warning: almost 35MB) for
> > investigation at:
> > 
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~fiberbit/http://www.xs4all.nl/~fiberbit/git-next-8f0e41f3-bad-index.tgz
> 
> Gah, I can't even copy-and-paste:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~fiberbit/git-next-8f0e41f3-bad-index.tgz

Don't worry -- I figured it out and was able to reproduce the problem already. Thanks a lot!

> This is on a quadcore. I recently experimented with "git config
> pack.threads 0" but as it didn't seem to speedup anything I removed
> it again. Just mention it on the infinitesimal chance it might be
> important.

It is not. And the speedup should be noticeable when you repack, not when you fetch.

Nicolas