On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Tomas Carnecky <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/9/10 6:50 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: >> On the other hand, perhaps a more important question is: why does git >> feel like it needs to generate entirely new packs for each person >> doing a clone on your system? Shouldn't it be reusing existing ones >> and just streaming them straight out to the recipient? > > Isn't that something that the rev cache is supposed to fix? I wouldn't think so - at least not when cloning a repository from scratch. The whole idea of a clone is you ought to be able to copy the pack contents verbatim since you should want "all" the objects. Though maybe I've missed something... I've never read the code for that stuff. Have fun, Avery -- 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