Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:06:25PM CEST, I got a letter
where Christopher Li <git@chrisli.org> told me that...
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:40:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > Still a good space reduction.  Good job!
> > 
> > I am now dreaming if we someday would enhance the mechanism with
> > append-only updates to the *.pack files with complete rewrite of
> > the *.idx files, and get rid of files under .git/objects totally.
> 
> No offense my friend, this has been done. It's name is mercurial.
> 
> > This would make things reasonably friendly to rsync.  The kernel
> > pack has around 60M pack with 1.1M index, so everyday use would
> > involve incremental updates to the pack [*1*] and full download
> > of the index file.
> 
> It still have other open issue. Now it would be harder to not sync
> all the heads. If I just want the clean Linus-2.6 tree, I have to
> dig it out from the pack file which mixing with other heads. 
> 
> You could host different projects with it's own pack file. That
> will lost the space saving on co-hosting projects.
> 
> So I am not convince rsync is the way to go in long run. You need
> to have your own network syncing method.

I think the git-*-pull tools are actually just fine. You will only need
to have some server-side CGI gadget to frontend the file, but we need
that anyway to make the pull reasonably effective.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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