"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Using the Mozilla repo you downloaded is not a normal situation since > it is 100% packed. Most people are going to have a few thousand loose > objects floating around too. Loose objects really slow things down. When you have a few thousand loose objects you definitely should consider repacking (not "repack -a" for Mozilla case, perhaps). We could benefit from the suggested organization of one base archive pack plus a current active pack. The core side code to help doing so was posted here which followed a discussion on how to have repack make use of it last week. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/26218/focus=26326 Any takers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html