Re: [PATCH v4 00/32] Lockfile correctness and refactoring

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

I was running pack-refs on a repository with a very large number of
loose refs (about 1.8 million). Needless to say, this ran very slowly
and thrashed the disk, as that's almost 7G using 4K inodes. But it did
eventually generate a packed-refs file, at which point it tried to prune
the loose refs.

Urghh.. ref advertisment for fetch/push would be unbelievably large.
Gotta look at the "git protocol v2" again soon..
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Duy