Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

From: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 10:45 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20130219T113730-546@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1360848843-12092-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while
> v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6
> and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wanted to propose index v4
> as the new default version, because I guess that not many people
> outside git <at> vger are aware of it, but perhaps this approach is less
> drastic. It only suggest index v4 when the index size after clone hits
> 512K limit.
>

Is V4 really recommended for general use? Default seems to be V3 and all I found in the docs is the coresponding release not describing V4 as "experimental". (I have repos with index files > 40MiB (!) which will shrink to approx. 20MiB with V4 so using V4 would be an interessting option for me.)

--- Thomas