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Re: git gc and kernel.org

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Oct 20, 2009, 18:46 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.0910201442480.21460@xanadu.home>
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<200910201054.48315.johan@herland.net>
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Johan Herland wrote:
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> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > At one point, update-server-info used to compute a lot more than what we
> > currently compute and it made some sense to oppose against it on
> > performance ground.
> > 
> > But these days it only lists the refs and packs and does nothing else;
> > the performance impact should be immeasurable and it adds only two files
> > to the repository.  It cannot be a big deal, unless you oppose to http
> > transport on a non-technical ground.
> 
> FYI, update-server-info takes ~0.7 seconds in a repo with one pack and 
> ~50000 refs, so I guess it's acceptable to enable it by default, even in 
> those kinds of repos.

Still... Hopefully this is going to become redundant information in the future with the eventual deployment of smart protocol over HTTP. So I think that as a config option being off by default this is a good compromize. Site administrators can turn it on by default in /etc/gitconfig.

Nicolas
Previous: Johan HerlandNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 5 of 18 in “git gc and kernel.org”
  1. H. Peter AnvinOct 20, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  3. H. Peter AnvinOct 20, 2009
  4. Johan HerlandOct 20, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreOct 20, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 20, 2009
  8. receive-pack: run "gc --auto" and optionally "update-server-info"Junio C Hamano, Oct 20, 2009
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 21, 2009
  10. Johannes SixtOct 21, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  13. Johannes SixtOct 21, 2009
  14. Jan KrügerOct 21, 2009
  15. 1/2 gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboaseJunio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  16. 2/2 receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet " and optionally "update-server-info"Junio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  17. Mikael MagnussonOct 20, 2009
  18. H. Peter AnvinOct 21, 2009

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