Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:

I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while
v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6
and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wanted to propose index v4
as the new default version, because I guess that not many people
outside git <at> vger are aware of it, but perhaps this approach is less
drastic. It only suggest index v4 when the index size after clone hits
512K limit.

Is V4 really recommended for general use?
Default seems to be V3 and all I found in the docs is
the coresponding release not describing V4 as "experimental".
(I have repos with index files > 40MiB (!) which will shrink to
approx. 20MiB with V4 so using V4 would be an interessting option for me.)

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Thomas