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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Vote to revert all changes related to shallow git fetch from bug 552814
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:01:48
Message-Id: 20161107090132.6b30b16b.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Vote to revert all changes related to shallow git fetch from bug 552814 by Zac Medico
1 On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 11:26:06 -0800
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Given the performance issues introduced by `git update-index` and `git
5 > prune`, shallow fetch doesn't seem to be a practical default at this time.
6 >
7 > In order to prepare a release that will be eligible for stabilization, I
8 > propose that we revert all of the changes related to bug 552814:
9 >
10 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=84413bb1dd9df322568ce25efc5b7854a43d03c7
11 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=55aef9bf297ef8cbf29921acb454449d01313818
12 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f5d258656de3db54af06fbca9b8da5217d3802f4
13 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f77fcd6b0b4ebb49ca62f5767cd5c931127c3dbb
14 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=d075422a8902617833ec945d94beb0bb334d44c9
15
16 Please do that. The sooner it is done, the less likely it is that users
17 have too many loose objects to not be able to clean up the mess
18 automatically during periodic 'git gc'.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny
23 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>