Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:46:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: How git affects kernel.org performance |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote: > > Hmm... Perhaps it should be possible to push git updates as a pack > > file only? I mean, the pack file would stay packed = never individual > > files and never 256 directories? > > Latest Git does this. If the server is later than 1.4.3.3 then > the receive-pack process can actually store the pack file rather > than unpacking it into loose objects. The downside is that it will > copy any missing base objects onto the end of a thin pack to make > it not-thin.
No. There are no thin packs for pushes. And IMHO it should stay that way exactly to avoid this little inconvenience on servers.
The fetch case is a different story of course.
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