From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:46:01 GMT
Subject: Re: tag storage format
Message-ID: <m2vce2xh06.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAMJd5ATiAx09eAEo1=6+=hPv=5c6qtOiLRG5jrQn5dfCKUrvMQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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