On 10.03.2011 18:31, Shawn Pearce wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:30, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> 7. packfilev4. >> >> I suspect that is too complex for a SoC project. But you never know. > > It is. Nico is also probably working on it. > > My big concern with pack v4 right now is the on-disk format of > commits/trees is different from the current wire protocol. If a pack > v2 only client connected to a server using pack v4, the server would > have to spend a lot of time to inflate/deflate about 60% of the > objects in the repository (commits and trees). That is a lot of CPU > time. So even if a SoC-er finished the work, it probably wouldn't be > merged because of this penalty. I'm very interested in this. Can anyone please point me towards further information on the packfile format and proposed/in-progress changes? -- 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