Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> 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.


Nicolas
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