# When to repack? 4 messages from 2008-02-29 to 2008-03-01. Participants: Paul Gardiner, Karl Hasselström, Jakub Narebski, Xavier Maillard. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12379 ## Paul Gardiner, 2008-02-29 10:55 Subject: When to repack? Message-ID: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/47C7E4AD.6030509%40glidos.net ``` There's advantage to repacking a repository after using git-fast-import. If that repacked repository is then git-pushed to another, is there any point in repacking the other afterwards? I'm guessing not, but just checking. P. ``` ## Karl Hasselström, 2008-02-29 11:47 Subject: Re: When to repack? Message-ID: <20080229114735.GA17416@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080229114735.GA17416%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk In-Reply-To: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> ``` On 2008-02-29 10:55:41 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote: > There's advantage to repacking a repository after using > git-fast-import. If that repacked repository is then git-pushed to > another, is there any point in repacking the other afterwards? I'm > guessing not, but just checking. No, there isn't. The pack is essentially sent unmodified over the wire. (IIRC, packs were originally conceived as a way of reducing transfer bandwidth, and were later adopted for on-disk storage as well. But I might be mistaken.) -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-02-29 13:22 Subject: Re: When to repack? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3prufkicm.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> ``` Paul Gardiner writes: > There's advantage to repacking a repository after using git-fast-import. > If that repacked repository is then git-pushed to another, is there > any point in repacking the other afterwards? I'm guessing not, but > just checking. Yes, there is, to concatenate packs. But this should be less urgent. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Xavier Maillard, 2008-03-01 01:00 Subject: Re: When to repack? Message-ID: <200803010100.m2110GSw008865@localhost.localdomain> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200803010100.m2110GSw008865%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> ``` There's advantage to repacking a repository after using git-fast-import. If that repacked repository is then git-pushed to another, is there any point in repacking the other afterwards? I'm guessing not, but just checking. I am not an expert but I would not do it afterwards too. Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org ```