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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

  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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