Re: Performance regression in connectivity check during receive-pack (git 2.54)

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 10:45:46AM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:
> On 26/07/24 05:46AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
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> > I think overall this could simplify some of the design, and it makes a
> > bunch of issues that I have been struggling with go away. The devil may
> > be in the details of course, but I think transitioning towards this
> > should be doable.
> 
> I am certainly a fan of this direction. We do lose some flexibility in
> terms of supporting alternates more generically, but I'm not sure
> supporting alternates of different source types in the same repo would
> be something we want anyways in practice due to the additional
> complexity.

True. But if we ever find that we actually want that flexibility we
don't paint ourselves into a corner, either, as it is rather trivial to
introduce another source type that allows us to mix and match different
sources.

Patrick