David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 06:38 +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> > * 'git push'? >> >> This one is not affected by how deep your repo's history is, or how >> wide your tree is, so should be quick.. >> >> Ah the number of refs may affect both git-push and git-pull. I think >> Stefan knows better than I in this area. > > I can tell you that this is a bit of a problem for us at Twitter. We > have over 100k refs, which adds ~20MiB of downstream traffic to every > push. > > I added a hack to improve this locally inside Twitter: The client sends > a bloom filter of shas that it believes that the server knows about; the > server sends only the sha of master and any refs that are not in the > bloom filter. The client uses its local version of the servers' refs > as if they had just been sent.... Interesting. Care to extend the discussion to improve the protocol exchange, which starts at $gmane/263932 [*1*], where I list the known issues around the current protocol (and a possible way to correct them in footnotes)? [Footnote] *1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/263898/focus=263932 -- 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