Re: StGIT repository not clonable?

On 2006-11-11 21:59:32 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

I've never packed it. IIRC, there was some advise in some GIT
document or e-mail saying that you shouldn't pack if the export is
over a dumb protocol. That's good for people pulling regularly but
bad for cloning.

It's _extremely_ bad when cloning. There's a separate HTTP request for
each object in the repository, which means lots of time and lots of
web server load. It's just about doable to clone the StGIT repository
now because it's so small.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com