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Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

From
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date
Jan 21, 2011, 13:47 UTC
Message-ID
<20110121134728.GO14956@pengutronix.de>
In-Reply-To
<4D398C43.1000306@vollmann.ch>
Hi Detlef,
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
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> On 01/16/11 14:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >Let's say you already have a copy of my tree from a month ago, and Linus
> >has pulled some work from me into his tree, and repacked his tree into one
> >single pack file.  At the moment, the largest pack file from Linus is
> >400MB plus a 50MB index.
> >
> >You already have most of the contents of that 400MB pack file, but if
> >you're missing even _one_ object which is contained within it, git will
> >have to download the _entire_ 400MB pack file and index file to retrieve
> >it.
> I thought this has changed with "smart http" in git 1.6.6.
> Am I missing something?

Well, not all http repos offer smart http. E.g. Russell doesn't[1], probably because the serving machine doesn't have the power to nice serve a repo via git:// or smart http://.

Best regards Uwe

[1] I didn't recheck though
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Message 5 of 15 in “Re: cannot fetch arm git tree”
  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 16, 2011
  2. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 16, 2011
  3. Jello huangJan 17, 2011
  4. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  5. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  6. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  7. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  8. Jello huangJan 21, 2011
  9. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  10. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  11. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  12. Miles BaderJan 24, 2011
  13. Johannes SixtJan 24, 2011
  14. J.H.Jan 24, 2011
  15. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 24, 2011

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