From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: When to repack? Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20080229114735.GA17416@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gardiner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 29 12:48:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JV3jM-00033E-Cx for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:48:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750991AbYB2LsL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:48:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751256AbYB2LsL (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:48:11 -0500 Received: from diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.90.142]:4717 "EHLO diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750963AbYB2LsK (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:48:10 -0500 Received: from kha by diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JV3iB-0004Y8-00; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:47:35 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C7E4AD.6030509@glidos.net> X-Manual-Spam-Check: kha@treskal.com, clean User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.) --=20 Karl Hasselstr=F6m, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle