# Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, \#04; Thu, 11)

- From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:00 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7568488
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7568471/t.md

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Junio C Hamano [ref] wrote:

> * jk/peel-ref (2012-10-04) 4 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2012-10-08 at 4adfa2f)
>  + upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements
>  + peel_ref: check object type before loading
>  + peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
>  + peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
>
>  Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the
>  other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the
>  branches and tags that are available in the repository.

FWIW I have this deployed at work for a userbase of a few hundred
users, none of whom have had any issues with it, it does speed things
up a lot though.
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