From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:24:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Delete ref $frotz by moving ref file to "deleted-$frotz~ref". Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200610170626.25654.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Christian Couder wrote: >> Ref deletion is an operation that happens far far rarer than >> updates and lookups, and I deliberately chose to optimize for >> the latter. > > I think that the ref deletion usage depends on the policy of people using > git, and there may be people that delete a ref very often. > > For example, when git becomes a major SCM, there may be people working on > big projects that want to create a new branch for each new bug and then > delete the branch when the code on the bug branch has been integrated into > a new release and the bug is closed. So do not pack branches then, pack only tags. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git