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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:55:57 +0100
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Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com=
> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wro=
te:
>> But usually the very first commit in a pack is huge as it typically
>> isn't delta compressed (a delta chain has to start somewhere). =C2=A0=
And this
>> first commit will roughly represent the same size as a tarball for t=
hat
>> commit. =C2=A0And if you don't get at least that first commit then y=
ou are
>> screwed. =C2=A0Or if you don't get a complete second commit when dee=
pening a
>> clone you are still screwed.
>
> Elijah's recent work on "rev-list --objects -- pathspec" [1] may help
> split a commit into many parts that can be sent separately.

 thank you nguyen, will take a look later in the day at that.   much
appreciated.