On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > 2010/7/8 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>: > > By the way, rev-cache project was started mainly to make "counting > > objects" part of clone / fetch faster. Would pack v4 offer the same > > without rev-cache? > > Speaking of pack v4 features... > > I remember from GitTogether08 that one hope was that the metadata > would be in a different file, such that it could be retrieved > separately (allowing shallow clones to create and push new commits). > Is this not something that is part of the design goals for packv4? No. And I don't see why a pack format change would need to be involved either. Nicolas