From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Cc: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Will git have a baseline feature or something alike?
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:00:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803011900.36723.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8384AA89-4ECF-4BB8-8A3B-6A656F2D2903@orakel.ntnu.no>
Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:
>
> Okay, as a git n00b I'm probably on completely the wrong track, but if
> you made a git repository out of a kernel tarball (cd linux-2.6.24 &&
> git init && git add .) and then did a shallow fetch from kernel.org
> into that repository, wouldn't the blobs you added get reused
> (assuming the tarball you downloaded was fairly recent), thus reducing
> the amount of data fetch has to transfer?
I think it wouldn't. If I understand it correctly, the fetching engine
deals only with commits. If you have commit, it assumes that you have
tree, blobs, and ancestors. If you don't have commit, it assumes that
you don't have tree and blobs.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 9:23 Will git have a baseline feature or something alike? eric miao
2008-02-29 9:56 ` Sean
2008-02-29 10:38 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-29 13:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-01 7:04 ` Sam Vilain
2008-03-01 12:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-01 13:20 ` Sam Vilain
2008-03-02 19:38 ` Jan Hudec
2008-03-02 21:29 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-01 14:10 ` eric miao
2008-03-01 14:29 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-03-01 15:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-01 17:30 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2008-03-01 18:00 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-03-02 14:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-03-01 20:43 ` David Brown
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