On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > You don't _need_ to shuffle. As mentioned, it will only affect the > location of the data in the pack-file, which in turn will mostly matter > as an IO pattern thing, not anything really fundamental. If the pack-file > ends up caching well, the IO patterns obviously will never matter. Ok, sounds like shuffling isn't necessary; the only benefit packing gains me is to reduce the size of each directory in the object store; the process I follow is to construct blobs for every revision, then just use the sha1 values to construct an index for each commit. I never actually look at the blobs myself, so IO access patterns aren't relevant. Repacking after the import is completed should undo whatever horror show I've created in any case. -- keith.packard@xxxxxxxxx
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