Hi,

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted text
> On 5/2/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > 'Checkout time' (which should be renamed to 'Initial checkout time'),
> > > in which git also loses with 130 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL) [from
> > > go-oo.org], 100min (Linux, 2MBit DSL, Wireless, no proxy) [from
> > > go-oo.org] versus 117 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL), 26 minutes (Linux,
> > > 2MBit DSL, with compression (-z 6)) for CVS, and  60 Minutes (Windows,
> > > 34Mbit Line) for Subversion, would also be helped by the above.
> > 
> > FWIW I can confirm the number "100min".
> > 
> > Something I realized with pain is that the refs/ directory is 24MB big.
> > Yep. Really. They have 3464 heads and 2639 tags. I suspect that this is
> > the reason why.
> 
> Then packed refs would certainly help with speed and a bit with size.

Indeed for size: du -h reported 11 megabyte for the tags directory. After 
packing them, a 265 kilobyte file is left. Of course, git-show-ref now 
becomes a speed demon again.

Ciao,
Dscho

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