From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Craig Schlenter Subject: Re: Remove unneeded packs Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1131800663.29461.11.camel@blade> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 12 14:45:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EavgA-0005pj-SF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:44:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932361AbVKLNoY (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:44:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932368AbVKLNoY (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:44:24 -0500 Received: from mail-01.jhb.wbs.co.za ([196.30.31.196]:4862 "EHLO mail-01.jhb.wbs.co.za") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932361AbVKLNoX (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:44:23 -0500 Received: from wbs-196-2-115-130.wbs.co.za ([196.2.115.130] helo=[172.17.17.2]) by mail-01.jhb.wbs.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eavfr-0000ZH-3c for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:44:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1131800663.29461.11.camel@blade> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Original-Subject: Re: Remove unneeded packs Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:04 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > every time Linus re-creates the pack for his linux-2.6 tree, I end up > with another pack. I use HTTP as transport and thus the new pack will > be > download (which is almost 100 MB), but that is fine. > [snip] The 100MB situation is not cool for those of us on a tight bandwidth budget or slow links. Can anyone tell me if the native git protocol is any better at this stuff please? Thanks, --Craig