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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

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  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-20  9:58 [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Tom Lord

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