From: Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Balanced packing strategy
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:14:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6abcb70496730705046934973221b93@codefountain.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051112135947.GC30496@pasky.or.cz>
On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:59 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:40:50PM CET, I got a letter
> where Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com> said that...
>> The 100MB situation is not cool for those of us on a tight bandwidth
>> budget or slow links. Can anyone tell me if the native git protocol is
>> any better at this stuff please?
>
> Yes, the native GIT protocol transfers only the objects you need.
Ah, magic, thanks!
> But the 100MB situation is still bad. FWIW, this is my proposal I sent
> about a month ago to some packs-related discussion at the kernel.org
> mailing list (ok, I updated it a little):
It would be nice if there was some meaningful automatic packing that
didn't hurt "non-git-aware protocol" users.
Does the pack index file contain enough information to enable a client
to send http byte range requests to grab individual objects from a pack?
It does seem to store object offsets but maybe I'm missing something ...
Thank you,
--Craig
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-12 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 13:04 Remove unneeded packs Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-12 13:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-12 13:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-12 22:02 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-12 22:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-11-13 2:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 10:58 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-13 12:00 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-13 12:07 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-13 12:20 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-11-13 12:31 ` Lukas Sandström
2005-11-12 13:40 ` Craig Schlenter
2005-11-12 13:59 ` Balanced packing strategy Petr Baudis
2005-11-12 15:14 ` Craig Schlenter [this message]
2005-11-13 2:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 11:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-13 20:06 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-13 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-14 5:03 Craig Schlenter
2005-11-14 10:24 ` Josef Weidendorfer
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