On 1/8/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yes but what about existing trees? > Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as if > you had done a clone -s ? Yes. Also do git repack -a -d -l where the "-l" flag is the magic (it says to repack only objects that aren't already packed in the alternate repository)
If all kernel.org repos get git-repack -a -d -l and git-pack-refs, gitweb will see a significant speedup, as some up-to-date checks become extremely cheap. cheers martin - 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