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Recommended packing for HTTP repositories

Subject: Recommended packing for HTTP repositories

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Robert Clausecker· Feb 13, 2013, 12:38 UTC · lore

Hello!

I provide dumb HTTP access to a git repository on a server where I can't enable the smart HTTP protocol. When the history of the repository grows, should I run git repack to pack all revisions together? Would that cause clients that just want to download a few commit to download the whole pack? What is recommended to do?

Yours, Robert Clausecker

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