Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 17, 2007, 01:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20070517012602.GV3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705161803580.1280@asgard.lang.hm>

david@lang.hm wrote:

Show 9 quoted lines

> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> >The other thing is kernel.org should really try to encourage the
> >folks with repositories there to try and share against one master
> >repository, so the poor OS has a better chance at holding the bulk
> >of linux-2.6.git in buffer cache.
> 
> do you mean more precisely share against one object store or do you really 
> mean repository?

Sorry, I did mean "object store".  ;-)

Repository is insanity, as the refs and tags namespaces are suddenly shared. What a nightmare that would become.

-- 
Shawn.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.