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Why pack+unpack?

Subject: Why pack+unpack?

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Jeff Garzik· Jul 26, 2005, 04:39 UTC · lore

Whenever I pull a local repository, such as

	cd /spare/repo/libata-dev
	git pull /spare/repo/linux-2.6/.git

git will pack, then unpack, the objects being pulled. AFAICT this is just a complete waste of time. Why does this occur?

Packing 1394 objects
Unpacking 1394 objects
  100% (1394/1394) done

It doesn't seem to make any sense to perform work, then immediately undo that work, just for a local pull.

	Jeff

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