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Re: [PATCHv1+eps] git-repack.txt: Clarify implications of -a for dumb protocols

From: Stephen Boyd <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:54

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Michael J
Gruber[off-list ref] wrote:
       pack everything referenced into a single pack.
       Especially useful when packing a repository that is used
       for private development and there is no need to worry
-       about people fetching via dumb protocols from it.  Use
+       about people fetching via dumb protocols from it.
+       (Over dumb protocols, one would have to fetch the whole new
+       pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how
+       many other objects in that pack exist locally already.) Use
       with '-d'.  This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
       leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as
       dangling.
Instead of adding this, why don't we just remove the part about dumb
protocols? So just say that it's especially useful for private
development. Then, if we really want to keep this performance note
just add it after the paragraph in one of those "+" things (What are
those called?)
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