[Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch: automatic cacherev and smarter get

[Matthieu Moy]

Matthew Hannigan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 06:57:06PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> > Besides, a revlib consumes a _huge_ amount of inodes that constitutes a
>> > real problem in many cases (compared to one tarball per 50 revisions).
>> 
>> git already proved this is not a real problem.
>
> It's has been something that has troubled the kernel.org people.

I think that's the reason why the packed format of git has been
implemented (but I didn't follow the history closely enough).

-- 
Matthieu