Re: tag storage format

Uri Moszkowicz [off-list ref] writes:

Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file block text or binary format
once a large number of tags becomes present in a repository.

This is what git pack-refs (called by git gc) does (by putting the refs
in .git/packed-refs).

Andreas.

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That did the trick - thanks!

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] wrote:

Uri Moszkowicz [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file block text or binary format
once a large number of tags becomes present in a repository.

This is what git pack-refs (called by git gc) does (by putting the refs
in .git/packed-refs).

Andreas.

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