Hi, We've conducted benchmarks comparing Git operations between a fully cloned and partially cloned repository (both using sparse-checkout). We'd like to understand the technical reasons behind the consistent performance gains we're seeing in the partial clone setup. Benchmark Results: Full Clone + Sparse-checkout: - .git size: 8.5G - Git index size: 20MB - Pack objects: 18,761,646 - Operations (mean ± std dev): * git status: 0.634s ± 0.004s * git commit: 2.677s ± 0.019s * git checkout branch: 0.615s ± 0.005s * git pull (no changes): 5.983s ± 0.391s Partial Clone + Sparse-checkout: - .git size: 2.0G - Git index size: 20MB - Pack objects: 13,560,436 - Operations (mean ± std dev): * git status: 0.575s ± 0.012s (9.3% faster) * git commit: 2.164s ± 0.032s (19.2% faster) * git checkout branch: 0.724s ± 0.154s * git pull (no changes): 1.866s ± 0.018s (68.8% faster) Key Questions: 1. What are the technical factors causing these performance improvements in the partial clone setup? 2. To be able to get these benefits, is there a way to convert our existing fully cloned repository to behave like a partial clone without re-cloning from scratch? Appreciate any insights here. Best regards, Manoraj K
