Re: Add a "Flattened Cache" to `git --clone`?

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: May 14, 2020, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20200514211040.a7hrirdzgkphx3la@chatter.i7.local>
In-Reply-To: <20200514210501.GY1596452@mit.edu>

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:05:01PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

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> > 
> > I don't think it's a common workflow for someone to repeatedly clone 
> > linux.git. Automated processes like CI would be doing it, but they tend 
> > to blow away the local disk between jobs, so they are unlikely to 
> > benefit from any native git local cache for something like this (in 
> > fact, we recommend that people use clone.bundle files for their CI 
> > needs, as described here: 
> > https://www.kernel.org/best-way-to-do-linux-clones-for-your-ci.html).
> 
> If the goal is a git local cache, we have this today.  I'm not sure
> this is what Caleb was asking for, though:

Right, I think I misunderstood his request -- I'd assumed we were talking about local cache, whereas it's about server-side or proxy-side cache.

I think something like git-caching-proxy would be a neat project, because it would significantly improve mirroring for CI deployments without requiring that each individual job implements clone.bundle prefetching.

-K