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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-http-fetch: Allow caching of retrieved objects by
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:17:24 +0200
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Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> By default the curl library adds "Pragma: no-cache" header to all
> requests, which disables caching by proxy servers.  However, most
> files in a GIT repository are immutable, and caching them is safe and
> could be useful.

Is caching really safe? Because of compression one git object can have 
many file representations.

Regards
	Stephan