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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2fua2$e2s$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46a038f90705161426n3b928086t2d3e68749557f866@mail.gmail.com

Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On 5/16/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> > Do the indexes have enough info to use them with http ranges? It'd be
>> > chunkier than a smart protocol, but it'd still work with dumb servers.
>> It would not be really performant, would it? Besides, not all Web servers
>> speak HTTP/1.1...
> 
> Performant compared to downloading a huge packfile to get 10% of it?
> Sure! It'd probably take a few trips, and you'd end up fetching 20% of
> the file, still better than 100%.

That's why you should have something akin to backup policy for pack files,
like daily packs, weekly packs, ..., and the rest, just for the dumb
protocols.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 20:10 Smart fetch via HTTP? Jan Hudec
2007-05-15 22:30 ` A Large Angry SCM
2007-05-15 23:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-16  0:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-16  5:25 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-16 11:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-16 21:26     ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-16 21:54       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-05-17  0:52       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17  1:03         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17  1:04           ` david
2007-05-17  1:26             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17  1:45               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-17 12:36                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-17  3:45           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 10:48             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17 14:41               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 15:24                 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 15:34                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 20:04                 ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 20:31                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 21:00                     ` david
2007-05-18  9:01                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-18 17:51                     ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 11:28         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-17 13:10           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 13:47             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-17 14:05               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-17 14:09               ` Martin Langhoff
2007-05-17 15:01                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 23:14                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-17 14:50               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-17 12:40 ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-17 12:48   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-18 18:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-18 18:33       ` alan
2007-05-18 19:01       ` Joel Becker
2007-05-18 20:06         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-05-18 20:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-18 21:56           ` Joel Becker
2007-05-20 10:30             ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-19  0:50       ` david
2007-05-19  3:58         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-19  4:58           ` david
2007-05-17 20:26   ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-17 20:38     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-18 17:35       ` Jan Hudec

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