On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:54:15PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Looks like the pack index was corrupted; removing the one it just fetched
> and repulling has made it happier.
> 
> However, it's made me unhappier.  Again, can we please have it accessible
> via the git protocol.  Or at least can whoever looks after that tree avoid
> repacking it except maybe once a month?
> 
> Why?  I don't want to have to keep on fetching 300 odd MB of pack files
> every time I pull from this tree.  10 minutes into my current pull and
> I only have 80MB... another 220MB to go.  IOW, 45 minutes for a pull.
> 
> This really isn't practical.

Sure, repacking should be avoided on servers for that. Do what you want
with your local copy and repack sure helps making git a bit faster,
still it's not good for the server side since we'd have to pull the
packs again and again.

-- 
balbi
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