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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: ellie <el@horse64.org>,  rsbecker@nexbridge.com,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:00:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8qzfcl98.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240608084323.GB2390433@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 8 Jun 2024 04:43:23 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> One strategy people have worked on is for servers to point clients at
> static packfiles (which _do_ remain byte-for-byte identical, and can be
> resumed) to get some of the objects. But it requires some scheme on the
> server side to decide when and how to create those packfiles. So while
> there is support inside Git itself for this idea (both on the server and
> client side), I don't know of any servers where it is in active use.

Didn't the bundle URL work originate at GitHub?  I thought this use
case was a reasonable match to the mechanism.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-08 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-07 23:28 With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with ellie
2024-06-07 23:33 ` rsbecker
2024-06-08  0:03   ` ellie
2024-06-08  0:35     ` rsbecker
2024-06-08  0:46       ` ellie
2024-06-08  8:43         ` Jeff King
2024-06-08  9:40           ` ellie
2024-06-08  9:44             ` ellie
2024-06-08 10:38               ` Jeff King
2024-06-08 10:35             ` Jeff King
2024-06-08 11:05               ` ellie
2024-06-08 19:00           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-06-08 20:16             ` ellie
2024-06-10  6:46           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-06-10 19:04           ` Emily Shaffer
2024-06-10 20:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2024-06-10 21:55               ` ellie
2024-06-13 10:10                 ` Toon claes
2024-06-11  6:31               ` Jeff King
2024-06-11 15:12                 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-06-29  1:53                   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2024-06-11  6:26             ` Jeff King
2024-06-11 19:40               ` Ivan Frade
2024-07-07 23:42         ` ellie
2024-07-08  1:27           ` rsbecker
2024-07-08  2:28             ` ellie
2024-07-08 12:30               ` rsbecker
2024-07-08 12:41                 ` ellie
2024-07-08 14:32                   ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2024-07-08 15:02                     ` rsbecker
2024-07-08 15:14                     ` ellie
2024-07-08 15:31                       ` rsbecker
2024-07-08 15:48                         ` ellie
2024-07-08 16:23                           ` rsbecker
2024-07-08 17:06                             ` ellie
2024-07-08 17:38                               ` rsbecker
2024-07-08 16:09                         ` Emanuel Czirai
2024-07-08 15:44                       ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2024-07-08 16:27                         ` rsbecker
2024-07-14 12:00                           ` ellie
2024-07-24  6:42                           ` ellie
2025-09-08  2:34                           ` Ellie
2024-09-30 21:01 ` Ellie

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