From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:22 +1300 Message-ID: <4D2B7D3E.7090400@vilain.net> References: <4D2B3643.2070106@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Wyzer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 10 22:42:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcPVZ-0002Oy-3T for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:42:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754654Ab1AJVm2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:28 -0500 Received: from mx4.orcon.net.nz ([219.88.242.54]:52846 "EHLO mx4.orcon.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752874Ab1AJVm1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by mx4.orcon.net.nz with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcPVS-0003sj-7g for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:26 +1300 Received: from [60.234.254.246] (helo=mail.utsl.gen.nz) by mx4.orcon.net.nz with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcPVS-0003sb-4N for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:26 +1300 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CFD602E09B; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:25 +1300 (NZDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on naos.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from [192.168.1.83] (arcturus.lan [192.168.1.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EAF82E094; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:22 +1300 (NZDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <4D2B3643.2070106@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 X-DSPAM-Check: by mx4.orcon.net.nz on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:26 +1300 X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Tue Jan 11 10:42:26 2011 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.5939 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 11/01/11 05:39, John Wyzer wrote: > Why not provide an alternative mode for the git:// protocoll that > instead of retrieving a big packaged blob breaks this down to the > smallest atomic objects from the repository? Those are not changing > and should be able to survive partial transfers. > While this might not be as efficient network traffic-wise it would > provide a solution for those behind breaking connections. To put this into numbers, for perl.git that might mean transferring 2GB of data instead of 70MB of pack. Sam