Re: git push sends more objects than it needs to

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:36:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 a) The "don't do that then" approach:

    Don't go behind git's back and add objects on your own, and expect git 
    to realize what you did. ;^p

To be a responsible kernel.org git user I need to use packfiles.  The
cheapest and easiest way to do that is to steal them from you.

 b) The "live with it" approach:

    You copied the pack by hand, and that will keep git-unpack-objects 
    from duplicating the objects, but you'll still waste time and network 
    when trying pushing the objects (just once, though).

    Ie this is what happened this time: nothing really lost, and the end 
    result is fine. Now you know why it happened, and you're fine.

I like this one best.  There's a pretty fat pipe between here and
kernel.org ... more of the time wasted appeared to be on the
unpacking part than on the transfer.

 d) Just let git do it for you.

    Copy the pack-files, or add my object directory as an "alternates" for 
    your object directory, do the "git prune-objects", and then _locally_ 
    on master.kernel.org just do something like

Longer term (when everyone is pulling using the "git" protocol)
adding your object directory to my info/alternates looks to be
the best thing.

-Tony