Re: git gc and kernel.org

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

At one point, update-server-info used to compute a lot more than what we
currently compute and it made some sense to oppose against it on
performance ground.

But these days it only lists the refs and packs and does nothing else;
the performance impact should be immeasurable and it adds only two files
to the repository.  It cannot be a big deal, unless you oppose to http
transport on a non-technical ground.

FYI, update-server-info takes ~0.7 seconds in a repo with one pack and 
~50000 refs, so I guess it's acceptable to enable it by default, even in 
those kinds of repos.


...Johan

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