On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So the optimizations that _can_ be done are: Of course, doing a "git repack -a -d && git prune" is always the #1 optimization. It will still look up the objects, but it will be a lot faster about it, and avoid a lot of the really bad IO patterns. If you don't want to repack, you could try just doing a "git clone" and then doing the "git pack-refs --prune" in the clone too. And compare cold-cache times between the two "identical" repositories. Linus - 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