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On 5 Sep 2007, Nicolas Pitre stated:

> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 	git fetch
>
> I think that would be a much better idea to simply decrease the 
> fetch.unpackLimit default value.

I think `git fetch' works reasonably well as is: unless you're fetching
every five minutes you often find you get packs anyway. There's no point
packing incrementally *too* often, or you replace a lots-of-objects
problem with a lots-of-packs problem, after which you're worse off than
when you started.