[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 nickname="joey"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2013-04-05T06:33:54Z"
 content="""
`git repack` took 18 minutes. However, it actually only packed the objects for the commit `git annex add` makes to the git-annex branch. Objects for the staged symlinks are left loose, presumably because no commit refers to them.

Unsurprisingly, then, `git commit` still took as long as before.

I then ran `git repack` again. It packed all the loose objects this time. After this, `git commit` only takes 11 seconds. If I remove the `pre-commit` hook, it drops to a respectable 5 seconds.


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