From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@cscott.net>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>,
gnu-arch-users@gnu.org, gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com,
git@vger.kernel.org, talli@museatech.net, torvalds@osdi.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:55:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504201754450.2630@cag.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050420213114.GF19112@pasky.ji.cz>
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> I think one thing git's objects database is not very well suited for are
> network transports. You want to have something smart doing the
> transports, comparing trees so that it can do some delta compression;
> that could probably reduce the amount of data needed to be sent
> significantly.
I'm hoping my 'chunking' patches will fix this. This ought to reduce the
size of the object store by (in effect) doing delta compression; rsync
will then Do The Right Thing and only transfer the needed deltas.
Running some benchmarks right now to see how well it lives up to this
promise...
--scott
terrorist AEROPLANE munitions PAPERCLIP MI5 Morwenstow WSHOOFS CABOUNCE
colonel Yakima AES MI6 nuclear NSA Cocaine Columbia plastique LICOZY
( http://cscott.net/ )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-20 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 10:00 [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Tom Lord
2005-04-20 10:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-20 17:15 ` duchier
2005-04-20 22:40 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 9:09 ` Denys Duchier
2005-04-21 10:21 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 11:46 ` [Gnu-arch-users] " duchier
2005-04-20 22:51 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 19:04 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-21 20:35 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tom Lord
2005-04-20 23:04 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-21 0:05 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Denys Duchier
2005-04-21 20:39 ` [Gnu-arch-users] " Tom Lord
2005-04-21 7:49 ` Tomas Mraz
2005-04-21 21:51 ` [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] " Tom Lord
2005-04-21 21:52 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-22 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 17:39 ` Edésio Costa e Silva
2005-04-20 21:31 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 21:55 ` C. Scott Ananian [this message]
2005-04-20 22:22 ` chunking (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git') Linus Torvalds
2005-04-20 23:42 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-22 21:02 ` blowing chunks (quick update) C. Scott Ananian
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2005-04-20 9:58 [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Tom Lord
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