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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Last mile to 1.0?
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:49:57 -0700
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To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>>
>>    - Anonymous pull from packed archives on remote sites via
>>      non-rsync, non-ssh transport.  ...
>>      ... but we may also end up wanting something HTTP
>>      reachable.
>
> For this we need a cgi script that will generate an appropriate
> pack.

I agree that nothing would beat a pack customized for each
puller from the bandwidth point of view.  I like the general
idea of git-daemon Linus did and the cgi script you suggest, but
I wonder what the CPU/disk load implications for the server.