From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: John Wyzer <john.wyzer@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:42:22 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2B7D3E.7090400@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2B3643.2070106@gmx.de>
On 11/01/11 05:39, John Wyzer wrote:
> Why not provide an alternative mode for the git:// protocoll that
> instead of retrieving a big packaged blob breaks this down to the
> smallest atomic objects from the repository? Those are not changing
> and should be able to survive partial transfers.
> While this might not be as efficient network traffic-wise it would
> provide a solution for those behind breaking connections.
To put this into numbers, for perl.git that might mean transferring 2GB
of data instead of 70MB of pack.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-10 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 2:29 Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs? Zenaan Harkness
2011-01-06 17:05 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-01-10 16:39 ` John Wyzer
2011-01-10 21:42 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2011-01-11 0:03 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-11 0:57 ` J.H.
2011-01-11 1:56 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-06 21:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-07 2:36 ` Zenaan Harkness
2011-01-07 4:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-07 5:22 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 5:31 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 10:04 ` Zenaan Harkness
2011-01-07 18:52 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 21:45 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2011-01-07 21:56 ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 22:21 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2011-01-07 22:27 ` Jeff King
2011-01-10 21:07 ` Sam Vilain
2011-01-10 11:48 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-10 13:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
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