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Re: tag storage format

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Oct 22, 2012, 22:46 UTC
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Uri Moszkowicz <uri@4refs.com> writes:
> Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file block text or binary format
> once a large number of tags becomes present in a repository.

This is what git pack-refs (called by git gc) does (by putting the refs in .git/packed-refs).

Andreas.
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