Re: [RFC][RESEND][PATCH] Allow fetching from multiple repositories at once

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 07:23:01PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 06:57:36PM CEST, I got a letter
> > where A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> said that...
> > > Petr Baudis wrote:
> > > >You still need to pass git-fetch-pack some URL in addition to the
> > > >repositories - it is used only for git_connect(), the purpose is that
> > > >repositories must be local directories so if you want to talk remote, you
> > > >need to do something like
> > > >
> > > >	git-fetch-pack git://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git 
> > > >	--repo=/pub/scm/git/git.git master next 
> > > >	--repo=/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git master
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Can't this be done with a simple wrapper around git-fetch* ?
> > 
> > The point is that that is too slow (the difference is noticeable
> > especiall in the case there is no new stuff ready), you need to create a
> > connection and do whole lot of work for each of the repositories.
> 
> I still firmly believe that it would be way more efficient to fetch all 
> those branches into _one_ proxy repository. Especially since you can reuse 
> the objects with an alternate, which has an additional benefit over your 
> approach.

  Huh? You can reuse the objects with my approach as well. Actually, it
is automagically done so.

  With proxy repository, you would still need a server-side setup to
maintain that repository, and specialized client-side porcelain to fetch
from it. My approach initially requires some core changes (which aren't
very pretty as it is but are not very fundamental or logically intrusive
either) but in the longer run it pays off since you don't need a
convoluted server-side setup for that.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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