On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +To ensure minimum necessary connectivity, we also download basic > +information from otherwise excluded commits > + * parents of these commits > + * trees matching the specified sparse path(s) > +but, for security and space reasons, do not download > + * author > + * author date > + * committer > + * committer date > + * log message > +Such commits are still considered "missing" (see item I4 for more > +details about how we handle "missing" commits). Just an observation. When I ran pack-objects with irrelevant commits removed (i.e. try_to_simplify_commit) on Documentation/, I got a 6MB pack. When I ran it without commit simplification, I got 16MB pack. That's 10MB larger. Now I don't how much of that 10MB share is commit messages, authors, committers and trees but I suspect trees take a large part in it. Maybe you can just fake the trees in those fake commits as well, to avoid downloading more trees. -- Duy -- 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