From: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
To: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: When to repack?
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080229114735.GA17416@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 10:55 When to repack? Paul Gardiner
2008-02-29 11:47 ` Karl Hasselström [this message]
2008-02-29 13:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-01 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-31 12:50 Bill Lear
2007-01-31 12:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 13:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-31 15:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-31 15:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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