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Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
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On Fri, 18 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On 5/18/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > If you have a solution for that problem, please enlighten me: I don't.
> 
> Ok - worst case scenario - have a minimal hints file that tells me the
> ranges to fetch all commits and all trees. To reduce that Add to the
> hints file data to name the hashes (or even better - offsets) for the
> delta chains that contain commits+trees relevant to all the heads -
> minus 10, 20, 30, 40 commits and 1,2,4,8 and 16 days.

NO !

This is unreliable, unnecessary, and actually kills the beauty of 
the solution's simplicity.

You get updates for every branches the remote has, period.

No server side extra files, no guesses, no arbitrary ranges, no backward 
compatibility issues, no crap!


Nicolas