From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "C. Scott Ananian" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:55:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <200504201000.DAA04988@emf.net> <20050420213114.GF19112@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Tom Lord , gnu-arch-users@gnu.org, gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com, git@vger.kernel.org, talli@museatech.net, torvalds@osdi.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 20 23:58:30 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DONCd-0004k7-Hq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:57:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261609AbVDTWCD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:02:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261830AbVDTWCD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:02:03 -0400 Received: from sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.67.31]:33459 "EHLO sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261609AbVDTWB7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:01:59 -0400 Received: from catfish.lcs.mit.edu ([128.30.67.25] helo=cag.csail.mit.edu) by sincerity-forever.csail.mit.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DONB4-0003Pc-00; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:56:10 -0400 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050420213114.GF19112@pasky.ji.cz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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/ )