On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 7:39 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> + { "pack.useBitmaps", "false" },
>
> I don't understand anything bitmap related, but I thought they were
> performance related, so I'm surprised by this one. Is there a reason
> for this one? (Is it handled by maintenance instead?)
I don't know why Derrick did this, but there's still AFAIK cases where
bitmaps are worse than not in the context of a client (the scalar
use-case), see the rabbit hole starting at:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/878s6nfq54.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
