On Mon, 7 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Keeping fetched and updated refs in core and write a packed refs > out in one go in git-fetch--tool (and later, git-fetch all in C) > would be much simpler if we do not have to worry about existing > refs (aka "git clone" special case); I am not sure if packing > refs is desirable in general for incremental "git-fetch". Fair enough. It's true that for the general case of "git fetch", it's much less obvious how to keep things packed. So maybe the right thing really *is* to just add the git pack-refs --all --prune to the git-clone wrapper. 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