From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:31:10 GMT Subject: Re: Hackontest ideas? Message-ID: <20080729053110.GD11947@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20080729001016.GT32057@genesis.frugalware.org> Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:01:03AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > (What feature in Git or a Git-related tool would you implement, given 24 > > hours staight and unlimited pizza supply?) > > Restartable git-clone? :-) > > It was a GSoC idea this year, but in the end nobody started working on > it. > > (I was about to work on it, but finally my 'builtin-merge' application > was accepted.) Yea, we eventually decided it was probably too small for a GSoC project. Given how quickly you put together your git-merge project, I'm actually happy we got you working on git-merge and not restartable clone, as I think you may have finished restartable clone in 24 hours and then said "now what mr. mentor?" ;-) Pasky, et.al.: How about smart fetch/push over HTTP? E.g. a CGI (or extension to gitweb) that does native pack transport over HTTP rather than dumb object traversal with GET and WebDAV LOCK/PUT. Note that the push side doesn't need to support tell-me-more extension, making it a fairly trivial GET, POST (or PUT) sequence. -- Shawn.