Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was thinking of just reading the pack header in receive-pack, > checking the object count, and if its over a configured threshold > call index-pack rather than unpack-objects. Unfortunately I just > realized that if we read the pack header to make that decision then > its gone and the child process won't have it. :-( If you want to do that, that is certainly possible. You can read the first block in the parent (without discarding), make the decision and then fork()+exec() either unpack-objects or index-pack and feed it from the parent. The parent first feeds the initial block it read to make that decision, and then becomes a cat that reads from send-pack and writes to the child process that is either unpack-objects or index-pack. - 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