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Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2006, 21:04 UTC
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<1139778267.4183.66.camel@evo.keithp.com>
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<43EF15D1.1050609@op5.se>
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 12:02 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Caching features have been discussed, but that means the daemon needs to 
> have write-access to some directory within the repository.

Caching seems a bit dicey to me; security concerns and all. I would much rather have it discover packs on disk that provided a subset of the necessary objects; repository cloning would then be a process of delivering any available packs and then packing up the remaining objects. Clever administration of the repository could then construct a single pack of 'historical' data followed by periodic packs of incremental data.

Yeah, I know, I should just implement this and see how well it works in
practice. I apologize for thinking in public.     
      
-- 
keith.packard@intel.com
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