On Nov 19, 12:58 pm, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:42:14PM -0800, Jeenu wrote: > > > On Nov 18, 4:45 pm, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The refs may be packed in .git/packed-refs, if your repository got gc'd > > > recently - that is nothing to worry about. > > > Ah, right; there's one. So that explains it. Thanks. > > > But what's the point of this exercise? Branch when left alone are > > plain text files; packing still leaves them as plain text files. Being > > binary, I'd think of packing objects for some kind of space/time > > benefits. But what's with branch heads here? > > Still space/time benefits, reading many small files is much slower than > reading an equivalently sized single file. This is especially noticeable > with tags which can add up to huge amounts over time.
Hm, makes sense. Thanks. Jeenu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=.
