From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (pb-smtp1.pobox.com [64.147.108.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEB3E210FB for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717873256; cv=none; b=QcxvDxggHzOjquduweJ0XdcpWGfkyj9yEI5hAsjbFnNlc9wZgSE/SWfhPbd4LfBF3DDuC5kukUxfQoO5da4GRfF4Ln0mrL38EubpbqupNo9GLTZK/kxJo0n71jaLKUkR8Kb7j2TnEUVp3N0Ey1kb2xz0f4x5DoiQRUtTSnMBFso= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1717873256; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jgvfg5a+KvvoNYcSGNP/IVW9vdVDqCORP0qpPbL/J7k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=h0dkFZpIHCghRq7SXKG+GPRFGa41MQ3w8uRaNCMJ/CsPSX7EyZsm6SIA3DPW1c0Z+qliVTxtuQuvF101HTflWQ8X6NkdsVxp0jS89gsDiitmgACJRIcOOCbu8Zdn1OC+Wswf7eeGCKvajTO7bdyeVvSWOs4H7O2rxcfTt56LLk0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=aMFatpMy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="aMFatpMy" Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE00420BE9; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 15:00:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=jgvfg5a+KvvoNYcSGNP/IVW9vdVDqCORP0qpPb L/J7k=; b=aMFatpMy7Yaj0XTjv/sC/zM0LgsP9j+faNSVDmBxmVfDdcGuDzW35f niNuom6oOhbopSS9KnATVnKxauu/r6p+uepDdYYuIPhgw4LoHAc7oeGT6o6v8DEn 7lryMhrPyRlmndXS2qmN1Z176TwOGnhvxyOqkfJ2zJ2r1HqeI9k3U= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C6F20BE8; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 15:00:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.204.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1D34A20BE7; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 15:00:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: ellie , rsbecker@nexbridge.com, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with In-Reply-To: <20240608084323.GB2390433@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 8 Jun 2024 04:43:23 -0400") References: <0be201dab933$17c02530$47406f90$@nexbridge.com> <0beb01dab93b$c01dfa10$4059ee30$@nexbridge.com> <200c3bd2-6aa9-4bb2-8eda-881bb62cd064@horse64.org> <20240608084323.GB2390433@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:00:51 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6DBAB808-25C9-11EF-A5F7-B84BEB2EC81B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Jeff King 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.