From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>,
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:33:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimxyWOd3MUnbXZS0ZdqEXb8oRCUwHDNtavbCpgJ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009061025210.19366@xanadu.home>
nicolas, thank you very brief reply (busy for 2 days)
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
>> * to work out how far local deviates from remote along that list of commits
>
> That's an operation that only the peer with the most recent commits can
> do, unless you transfer that huge list of commits from above across the
> network.
i Have A Plan for dealing with that.
> So, on a server (i.e. the peer sending objects) you'd do:
>
> git rev-list <refs_that_I_publish> --not <refs_that_the_remote_has>
sadly that involves telling the sender what the recipient has.
>> problem: despite looking through virtually every single builtin/*.c
>> file which uses write_sha1_file (which i believe i have correctly
>> identified, from examining git unpack-objects, as being the function
>> which stores actual objects, including their type), i do not see a git
>> command (yet) which performs the reverse operation of "git cat-file".
>
> It is 'git hash-object'.
ah _haa_ - thank you! ok, so i have to create a pack-object-like
format, putting the object type at the beginning of the format, then
put the contents of "git cat-file" after it.
so - apologies, will be dealing with some work-related stuff for a
day or so. thank you for everything so far nicolas.
l.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-06 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 14:36 git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works! Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-01 22:04 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-02 13:37 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 13:53 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 14:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-02 15:33 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 15:42 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 15:51 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 17:06 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 15:58 ` Jeff King
2010-09-02 16:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 17:09 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 17:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 19:17 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 19:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-09-02 19:51 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 20:06 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 0:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 10:34 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-02 20:28 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-02 20:48 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 20:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-02 21:10 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 21:19 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 0:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 2:48 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-03 10:55 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 10:23 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 10:54 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 18:07 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 18:23 ` Casey Dahlin
2010-09-02 16:58 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 17:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-02 19:41 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-02 19:52 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-09-02 23:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 10:37 ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-03 11:04 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-03 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-03 18:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-03 19:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-03 21:11 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 0:24 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-04 0:57 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-09-04 1:52 ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04 4:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 5:42 ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04 6:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 11:58 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 13:14 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05 2:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 18:05 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05 23:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-06 13:23 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-06 16:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-06 22:33 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2010-09-06 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-06 23:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-07 0:17 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-07 0:29 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 13:42 ` Artur Skawina
[not found] ` <20100904155638.GA17606@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
2010-09-04 17:23 ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04 18:46 ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-04 1:57 ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 5:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-09-04 11:46 ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 14:06 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-05 1:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 17:16 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 5:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 12:00 ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-04 12:44 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 14:50 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 18:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-04 20:00 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 22:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-05 17:22 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 20:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-04 20:47 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 21:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-04 21:24 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-04 22:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-05 1:43 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-09-05 1:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-05 17:25 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010-09-06 0:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-09-04 12:33 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=AANLkTimxyWOd3MUnbXZS0ZdqEXb8oRCUwHDNtavbCpgJ@mail.gmail.com \
--to=luke.leighton@gmail.com \
--cc=art.08.09@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=nico@fluxnic.net \
--cc=pclouds@gmail.com \
--cc=tytso@mit.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).