From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support! Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:52:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20050628145256.GA1275@pasky.ji.cz> References: <20050627235857.GA21533@64m.dyndns.org> <7vekamvmxj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050628110625.GC21533@64m.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 28 16:47:12 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnHLv-0004Ki-4W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:46:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261968AbVF1OxS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:53:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261958AbVF1OxS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:53:18 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:20639 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261968AbVF1Ow7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:52:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 2087 invoked by uid 2001); 28 Jun 2005 14:52:56 -0000 To: Christopher Li Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050628110625.GC21533@64m.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:06:25PM CEST, I got a letter where Christopher Li told me that... > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:40:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ be careful, some twit might quote you out of context..