Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sep 3, 2010, 00:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009022033520.19366@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDi=KYZ7Bs4C+WEGoP8y-yzjynddWpkxohWoix@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  * based on what you kindly mentioned about "git repack -f", would a
> >> (well-written!) patch to git pack-objects to add a
> >> "--single-thread-only" option be acceptable?
> >
> > Probably not.  I can't think of a good reason to limit the number
> > of threads that get used.
> 
>  i can - so that git pack-objects, after "git repack -f", returns a
> canonical pack! :)

But did you try it? The -f means "don't reuse any existing pack data and recompute every delta from scratch to find the best matches". This is a very very costly operation that most people happily live without.

Nicolas