From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: More precise tag following Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:34:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <7vy7nqxd08.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070127080126.GC9966@spearce.org> <45BB9C8B.8020907@fs.ei.tum.de> <204011cb0701271136m655815f6o1501de2bf699b362@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Chris Lee , Linus Torvalds , Simon 'corecode' Schubert , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Lang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 29 18:34:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBaOi-000401-4r for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:34:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752031AbXA2ReW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:34:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752036AbXA2ReW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:34:22 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:46699 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752031AbXA2ReV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:34:21 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JCN005QX4T8STC0@VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:34:20 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, David Lang wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Chris Lee wrote: > > > From: Chris Lee > > On 1/27/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Do you have the converted repo somewhere to be cloned for? It's going to > > > be a lot more interesting for scalability testing than anything else. > > > > I don't have access to any servers that I could drop a 3GB packfile > > onto and expect them to serve it. And I don't have a connection at > > home that I could use to upload the 3GB pack from quickly - it would > > take days, at least. If anybody wants to hook me up with a hosting > > provider or a machine that just the git devs can access, I'd be > > willing to tie up my upstream bandwidth for a few days so you all can > > have access to it. > if nobody else steps forward I can arrange something like this on my home > server (only 768K updtream bandwidth, but it's better then nothing) Hey guys, We might be a couple people interested in this pack (I do as pack performance is one of my main interest in git). Linus is interested, and I'd guess Junio too, maybe a few others. Chris: why don't you just set up a Bittorrent feed for it? When we'll all start fetching it then the bandwidth will increasingly be shared amongst all interested people. Nicolas