Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
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- Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
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- Oct 17, 2005, 17:41 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:21:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> The assumption, which is the property the suggested packing > strategy has, is that older objects that are needed to complete > the history leading to the current tip are packed in those > n-month/n-week packs, so if we do not have them we would likely > be needing them, although we might not have walked that far back > in history yet.
Gotcha - I'm still thinking in terms of content distribution, where you only need a specific version of a tree to be available locally and explicitly don't want to transfer history. In our case, using packs doesn't make sense at the moment.
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