Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > 
> > > Perhaps you can first help out by telling me what you have to say 
> > > about moving object enumeration from upload-pack to pack-objects?
> > 
> > It is like a 25-line patch or so.  I did it once, although the shalow 
> > clone support was missing from it.  And somehow I managed to lose the 
> > patch while doing some reshuffling of unrelated bigger changes.
> > 
> > Basically, you can pass the revision arguments to pack-objects directly 
> > instead of passing them to rev-list and piping rev-list's output to 
> > pack-objects.
> 
> I seem to remember that somebody sent a patch within the last two weeks 
> implementing that, and if my memory does not fail me, in response to one 
> of your mails mentioning this wish.

Well, if so I wasn't CC'd on the post, and my periodic scan of the git 
list missed it as well.


Nicolas