Re: Question about your git habits

[Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:47:07AM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> 
> Yesterday, i had git cloned git://foo.com/bar.git   ( 777 MiB )
>  Today, i've git cloned git://foo.com/bar.git   ( 779 MiB )
> 
>  Both repos are different binaries , and i used 777 MiB + 779 MiB = 1556 MiB
>  of bandwidth in two days. It's much!
> 
>  Why don't we implement "binary delta between old git repo and recent git repo"
>  with "SHA1 built git repo verifier"?
> 
>  Suppose the size cost of this binary delta is e.g. around 52 MiB instead of
>  2 MiB due to numerous mismatching of binary parts, then the bandwidth
>  in two days will be 777 MiB + 52 MiB = 829 MiB instead of 1556 MiB.
> 
>  Unfortunately, this "binary delta of repos" is not implemented yet :|

It sounds like what concerns you is the bandwith to git://foo.bar. If
you are cloning the first repository to somewhere were the first
clone is accessible and bandwidth between the clones is not an issue,
then you should be able to use the --reference parameter to git clone
to just fetch the missing ~2 MiB from foo.bar.

A "binary delta of repos" should just be an 'incremental' pack file
and the git protocol should support generating an appropriate one. I'm
not quite sure what "not implemented yet" feature you are looking for.