Re: Repacking many disconnected blobs

From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: 2006-06-15 04:59:27
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> You don't _need_ to shuffle. As mentioned, it will only affect the 
> location of the data in the pack-file, which in turn will mostly matter 
> as an IO pattern thing, not anything really fundamental.  If the pack-file 
> ends up caching well, the IO patterns obviously will never matter.

Ok, sounds like shuffling isn't necessary; the only benefit packing
gains me is to reduce the size of each directory in the object store;
the process I follow is to construct blobs for every revision, then just
use the sha1 values to construct an index for each commit. I never
actually look at the blobs myself, so IO access patterns aren't
relevant.

Repacking after the import is completed should undo whatever horror show
I've created in any case.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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