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docs: mention git pack-refs for co-located repos

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As suggested by @yuja in
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/1841#issuecomment-1720451152

Thanks to @lazywei for pointing out that `git pack-refs --all` is better, at
least on the first run. I haven't checked, but suspect, that because of the
number of `refs/jj` refs jj creates, it might always be better.
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@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ repos may require you to deal with more involved Jujutsu and Git concepts.
it because they automatically run `git fetch` in the background from time to
time.
* In co-located repos with a very large number of branches or other refs, `jj`
commands can get noticeably slower because of the automatic `jj git import`
executed on each command. This can be mitigated by occasionally running `git
pack-refs --all` to speed up the import.
* Git tools will have trouble with revisions that contain conflicted files. While
`jj` renders these files with conflict markers in the working copy, they are
stored in a non-human-readable fashion inside the repo. Git tools will often