From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:10:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1007081909540.6020@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3Cp8W5wrWhL7DW736QPt7-2V-E8EAWJB5JYd1@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Heya,
> 
> 2010/7/8 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> > By the way, rev-cache project was started mainly to make "counting
> > objects" part of clone / fetch faster.  Would pack v4 offer the same
> > without rev-cache?
> 
> Speaking of pack v4 features...
> 
> I remember from GitTogether08 that one hope was that the metadata
> would be in a different file, such that it could be retrieved
> separately (allowing shallow clones to create and push new commits).
> Is this not something that is part of the design goals for packv4?

No.  And I don't see why a pack format change would need to be involved 
either.


Nicolas