From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:22:34 GMT Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > If for example you have a single pack because your repo is already fully > packed, then the "packing operation" involved during a clone should > merely copy the existing pack over with no further attempt at delta > compression. There's still the question if your repository has too many objects (for example, a branch that you deleted without garbage-collecting it). Then, sending the whole pack sends data that one may have considered as "secret". To me, this is a non-issue (if the content of these objects are secret, then why are they here at all on a public server?), but I think there were discussions here about it (can't find the right keywords to dig the archives though), and other people may think differently. Jeff King's answer in <20090405195714.GA4716@coredump.intra.peff.net> tackles this problem too. -- Matthieu