Re: "git-send-pack"

[Dan Holmsand <holmsand@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>>>>"LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> 
> LT> In fact, the most recent push was gone with a
> 
> LT> 	git-send-pack master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git
> 
> Congrats for a job well done.

Agree totally. And the whole pack thing is really cool. Git is sooo much
faster when running from pack-files only on my poor laptop.

> Now is there anything for us poor mortals who would want to have
> a "pull" support?  Logging in via ssh and run send-pack on the
> other end is workable but not so pretty ;-).

Agreed again :-)

Even cooler would be pack-pulls via http. That would be a bit hard on 
the servers with the current git-pack-objects, but it ought to be 
possible to create something similar that doesn't re-delta anything, but 
instead just spits out what's in an existing pack-file, and (perhaps) 
deltifies objects from the file system.

If people then re-pack their repositories occasionally, this should be 
plenty fast, the number of files for rsync to deal with could be kept 
down, as could download times for mortal users.

/dan