Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

2013-02-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thomas Ackermann writes: > Is V4 really recommended for general use? If you stick to C-git, I do not think there is any reason to avoid it. It is already a mature technology, the difference between 2 and 4 are so trivial that it is very unlikely for a latent bug to be hiding in corner cases. I

Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

2013-02-19 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Thomas Ackermann wrote: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy gmail.com> writes: > >> >> I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while >> v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6 >> and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wan

Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

2013-02-19 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy gmail.com> writes: > > I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while > v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6 > and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wanted to propose index v4 > as the new default version, because I

[PATCH/RFC] clone: suggest index version 4 when the index is bigger than 512 KiB

2013-02-14 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
I just realized that many of my big repos are still on index v2 while v4 should reduce its size significantly (3.8M -> 2.9M for linux-2.6 and 25M -> 14M for webkit, for example). I wanted to propose index v4 as the new default version, because I guess that not many people outside git@vger are aware