From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Coxall <quasi@cream.org>,
Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:47:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43382614.6080907@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050926163604.GC21019@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:41:54PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> told me that...
>
>>The other problem with HTTP vs. rsync is that the HTTP fetch will walk
>>the entire tree down to the root to verify it has every object. While
>>this isn't a bad thing it's usually unnecessary when it's all in one big
>>pack file.
>
>
> Is that really the case? I believe it will walk only to the original ref
> and assume everything before is complete. (Actually, it doesn't even
> seem to honor the --recover patch anymore, which isn't so nice
> especially in case some objects disappeared from your database and you
> would like to get them back. Happenned to me.)
I was talking about the initial pull. It does stop at the previous head
for updates.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-26 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-25 16:32 rsync deprecated but promoted? Zack Brown
2005-09-25 17:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-25 19:06 ` Martin Coxall
2005-09-26 13:32 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 14:41 ` Brian Gerst
2005-09-26 16:36 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 16:47 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2005-09-26 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-26 16:38 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-10 23:17 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 16:44 ` walt
2005-09-26 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-26 19:23 ` walt
2005-09-26 20:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-09-26 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 22:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-26 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 20:43 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 6:35 ` hared GIT repos (was Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?) Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-27 7:13 ` shared GIT repos Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 8:45 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-27 9:59 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-09-27 10:29 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-27 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 18:36 ` hared GIT repos (was Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?) A Large Angry SCM
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