On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Johan Herland wrote: > On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > At one point, update-server-info used to compute a lot more than what we > > currently compute and it made some sense to oppose against it on > > performance ground. > > > > But these days it only lists the refs and packs and does nothing else; > > the performance impact should be immeasurable and it adds only two files > > to the repository. It cannot be a big deal, unless you oppose to http > > transport on a non-technical ground. > > FYI, update-server-info takes ~0.7 seconds in a repo with one pack and > ~50000 refs, so I guess it's acceptable to enable it by default, even in > those kinds of repos. Still... Hopefully this is going to become redundant information in the future with the eventual deployment of smart protocol over HTTP. So I think that as a config option being off by default this is a good compromize. Site administrators can turn it on by default in /etc/gitconfig. Nicolas -- 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