Hi, On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On 5/2/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > 'Checkout time' (which should be renamed to 'Initial checkout time'), > > > in which git also loses with 130 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL) [from > > > go-oo.org], 100min (Linux, 2MBit DSL, Wireless, no proxy) [from > > > go-oo.org] versus 117 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL), 26 minutes (Linux, > > > 2MBit DSL, with compression (-z 6)) for CVS, and 60 Minutes (Windows, > > > 34Mbit Line) for Subversion, would also be helped by the above. > > > > FWIW I can confirm the number "100min". > > > > Something I realized with pain is that the refs/ directory is 24MB big. > > Yep. Really. They have 3464 heads and 2639 tags. I suspect that this is > > the reason why. > > Then packed refs would certainly help with speed and a bit with size. Indeed for size: du -h reported 11 megabyte for the tags directory. After packing them, a 265 kilobyte file is left. Of course, git-show-ref now becomes a speed demon again. Ciao, Dscho - 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