incremental push/pull for large repositories
- From
- Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
- Date
- Jul 10, 2010, 03:12 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20100710031258.GA554@nibiru.local>
Hi folks,
I often have situations where I've rebased branches with large files (10th of megabytes per file) and pushing them to the remote. Normally these files themselves stay untouched, but the history changes (eg. commits reordered, several changes in smaller files,etc).
It seem that on each push, the whole branch is transferred, including all the large files, which already exist on the remote site. Is there any way to prevent this ?
IMHO it would be enough having a negotiation on which objects really have to be transferred before creating and transmitting the actual pack file. That would save _much_ traffic (and transmit time) for those situations.
This could also be used to remotely repair broken repositories: just repack leaving off the broken objects and fetch the missing ones from remotes.
cu
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