Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Brian Gerst
2005-04-09T03:06:05Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can
>>just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by
>>running sha1sum on the resulting local copy). So think "wget".
>
>
> I'm not entirely convinced wget is going to be an efficient way to
> synchronize and fetch your tree, its simplicitly is great though. It's a
> tradeoff between optimzing and re-using existing tools (like webservers).
> Perhaps that's why you were compressing the stuff too? It sounds better
> not to compress the stuff on-disk, and to synchronize with a rsync-like
> protocol (rsync server would make it) that handles the compression in
> the network protocol itself, and in turn that can apply compression to a
> large blob (i.e. the diff between the trees), and not to the single tiny
> files.

It's my understanding that the files don't change. Only new ones are
created for each revision.

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Brian gErst