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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:53:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070211225326.GC31488@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910702111153p1691ad99nda97325b34b7a13f@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this happening because the repository on the server is not
> completely packed? It is basically building a pack of the whole thing
> and shipping it to me, right?

Correct.  The wire protocol only allows us to send one pack.
So we have to pack everything and transmit it as a single unit.
 
> If that is the case, why not first pack the whole repository and then
> copy it down the wire? Now the next clone that comes along doesn't
> have to do so much work. Would this help to eliminate some of the load
> at kernel.org?

Probably, but then the daemon needs write access to the repository.
This isn't required right now; it can be strictly read-only and
still serve the contents.
 
> remote: Total 63, written 63 (delta 0), reused 63 (delta 0)
> 100% (63/63) done
> fatal: pack: not a valid SHA1
> New branch: 0953670fbcb75e26fb93340bddae934e85618f2e

What version of git is this?  That looks like we're assuming the word
pack was an object, but I'm not sure why we would do such a thing...

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-11 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11 19:53 Efficiency of initial clone from server Jon Smirl
2007-02-11 22:53 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-02-11 23:25   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-11 23:51     ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  1:38     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  2:15       ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  3:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  4:49           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 16:42             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  4:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  4:29         ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  4:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  4:53             ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  5:01               ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  5:11                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12  5:17                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 15:20                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12 19:35                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-12 20:53                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 21:33                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-13  0:51                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-12  5:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  5:55                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  6:08                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 15:24                       ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 16:40                         ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 17:04                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 11:45                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-12 14:31                     ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 17:06                       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-13 15:03               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-02-11 23:29   ` Jon Smirl

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