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Re: More problems...

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
May 2, 2005, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20050502211349.GD20818@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To
<20050429195055.GE1233@mythryan2.michonline.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:50:55PM CEST, I got a letter where Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> told me that...

> Why not just use "rsync" for both remote and local synchronization, and
> provide a "relink" command to scan two .git/objects/ repositories and
> hardlink matching files together?

No. This completely misses the point, which is to avoid useless I/O when doing this local stuff; also, it saves disk space to a degree, but it is wildly fluctuating.

I like Junio's local-pull solution much more (from the conceptual standpoint; I didn't look at the code yet).

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Previous: Ryan Anderson
Message 24 of 24 in “More problems...”
  1. Russell KingApr 29, 2005
  2. Russell KingApr 29, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 29, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisApr 29, 2005
  5. Ryan AndersonApr 29, 2005
  6. Thomas GlanzmannApr 29, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsApr 29, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2005
  9. Russell KingApr 29, 2005
  10. Anton AltaparmakovApr 29, 2005
  11. Petr BaudisMay 2, 2005
  12. Dave KleikampMay 2, 2005
  13. Thomas GlanzmannMay 2, 2005
  14. Anton AltaparmakovMay 2, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsMay 2, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisMay 3, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowMay 3, 2005
  18. Andreas GalMay 3, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  20. Daniel BarkalowApr 29, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2005
  22. Split out "pull" from particular methodsDaniel Barkalow, Apr 30, 2005
  23. Add git-relink-script, a tool to hardlink two existing repositories.Ryan Anderson, May 4, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisMay 2, 2005

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