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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Subject: Re: Incremental object transfer
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:09:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112160933.GC15141@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112103427.GA29057@nibiru.local>

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> as already said some time ago, I'm using git to back up maildirs
> on a machine w/ relatively low ram. The biggest problem for now
> is the initial push (maybe later larger subsequent pushes could
> be also affected too): it takes quite a long time to get everything
> packed, and if the connection breaks (the box is sitting behind
> a dynamic-IP DSL link), everything has to be restarted :(

Maybe use "git bundle" and then transfer by rsync?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 10:34 Incremental object transfer Enrico Weigelt
2010-11-12 16:09 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-13 18:31 ` Jakub Narebski

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