From: Daniel Hulme Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:24:48 GMT Subject: Re: git-daemon on NSLU2 Message-ID: <20070826222448.GA24142@istic.org> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:15:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's easier to optimize on the *client* side: just do the initial clone > with rsync/http (and "git gc" it on the client afterwards), and then > change it to the git native protocol after the clone. When I was working on Xen two years ago, they did the same thing with their Mercurial repository. They had a proper repo that handled all the push and fetch traffic, and a cron job would periodically pull from that into a second repo. This second one was served by http. People were encouraged to download the seed repo and then do a fetch (from the main one) immediately. I don't know whether they still do that, but in any case it shows your idea is not unprecedented. -- Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk after- wards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once... and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards. A. A. Milne, 'Winnie-the-Pooh'