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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/32] Lockfile correctness and refactoring
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:25:36 +0700
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I was running pack-refs on a repository with a very large number of
> loose refs (about 1.8 million). Needless to say, this ran very slowly
> and thrashed the disk, as that's almost 7G using 4K inodes. But it did
> eventually generate a packed-refs file, at which point it tried to prune
> the loose refs.

Urghh.. ref advertisment for fetch/push would be unbelievably large.
Gotta look at the "git protocol v2" again soon..
-- 
Duy