On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote: > If I remember correctly with pack v4 some operations like getting size > of tree object needs encoding to current format, so they are slower than > they should be (and perhaps a bit slower than current implementation). > But that should be I think rare (well, unless one streams to > 'git cat-file --batch / --batch-check'). I didn't write the code to recreate canonical object format yet, but I suspect that the pack v4 object encoding will have to carry the size for the canonical version. > Would pack v4 need index v4? So far, no. > 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? That's indeed the main goal. 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