Christian Couder wrote:

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>> Ref deletion is an operation that happens far far rarer than
>> updates and lookups, and I deliberately chose to optimize for
>> the latter.
> 
> I think that the ref deletion usage depends on the policy of people using 
> git, and there may be people that delete a ref very often.
> 
> For example, when git becomes a major SCM, there may be people working on 
> big projects that want to create a new branch for each new bug and then 
> delete the branch when the code on the bug branch has been integrated into 
> a new release and the bug is closed.

So do not pack branches then, pack only tags.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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