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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:46:51 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> A few questions (not criticisms).
> 
>  * 1m50s to 4.5s is quite impressive, even if it is only in a repository
>    with unusual refs-vs-commits ratio, but I personally think 10 refs per
>    every commit is already on the borderline of being insane, and the
>    normal ratio would be more like 1 refs per every 10-20 commits.

Under Gerrit Code Review it is normaly to have 2-5 refs per commit,
every iteration of a patch is held as a commit and anchored by a
unique ref.

So we're borderline insane.  :-)
 
-- 
Shawn.