From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:26:23 GMT Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport Message-ID: <20080828172623.GD21072@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <48B6DE7A.1020207@zytor.com> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: >>> >>> I *think* the "native" git protocol uses binary here. It makes sense >>> to be consistent, to allow them to share code? >> >> No, the native protocol is horribly verbose here: >> >> 0032want ac3abe10ed54d512fbbaeb7cef19972eedd8e4a8 >> ... >> >> so its doing it in hex, and its using 10 bytes of "framing" for >> every SHA-1 it sends as each is sent in its own pkt-line with the >> have/want header. > > Hm. It's probably not enough data to worry significantly about. Should I change the HTTP protocol then to use the same format, so they have a better chance at sharing code between them? -- Shawn.