From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEFDC433E0 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:31:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23EA64DFD for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229828AbhA2Abi (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:31:38 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:42686 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229627AbhA2Abh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:31:37 -0500 Received: (qmail 20416 invoked by uid 109); 29 Jan 2021 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:30:57 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 4095 invoked by uid 111); 29 Jan 2021 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:30:57 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:30:56 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Taylor Blau Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, dstolee@microsoft.com, gitster@pobox.com, jrnieder@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Message-ID: References: <7e29f2d3a08c42b1e8368c4a2f52a11cc47ee959.1611617820.git.me@ttaylorr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7e29f2d3a08c42b1e8368c4a2f52a11cc47ee959.1611617820.git.me@ttaylorr.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 06:37:34PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote: > +pack.writeReverseIndex:: > + When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see: > + link:../technical/pack-format.html[Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt]) > + for each new packfile that it writes in all places except for > + linkgit:git-fast-import[1] and in the bulk checkin mechanism. > + Defaults to false. We may want to teach fast-import about this, too, but I think it's OK to draw the line here for now (it's already reasonably well known that the generated packs aren't amazing and benefit from repacking). -Peff