On 9/5/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I personally repack everything way more often than is necessary, and I had > kind of assumed that people did it that way, but I was apparently wrong. > Comments? (resent with CC to git@) I never followed up on one of your suggestions back in the day -- that we printed an informational msg along the lines of "you have X loose objects, it's about time to repack" after some operations (fetch, merge, commit). These days it's all C, so I'll pass the buck to people that actually know how to do printf() ;-) Also -- early users got everything exploded during clone, James is probable one of them. It is the worst case scenario, really. Users of a modern git will start off with a large packs, and accumulate little packs from pulls, so it's not as bad. In fact, in James' case, it would have been way way way faster to "steal" the packs from git.kernel.org via http (or your laptop) and _then_ repack. He'd been sorted in a minute. 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
