Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Marco Costalba wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > So it happens to be just faster to re-clone the whole thing by upstream.
> >
> > So what you are doing is passing the work, unnecessary work I'd say,
> > to some poor server. Not nice.
> 
> To a poor net bandwidth I would say because cloning from zero just
> downloads the packages.

Cloning from zero over http, https and rsync (and ftp) just downloads
the packfiles. Cloning over git or ssh if I understand correctly[*1*]
generates single pack for transfer. And that generates load for server.

[*1*] If I undersnad correctly from discussions here on git mailing
      list, the pack transfer protocol currently can transfer only
      _single_ pack; proposed multi-pack extension didn't get
      implemented.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland