From: Mike Taht Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:42:23 GMT Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Message-ID: <42616A9F.1030302@timesys.com> In-Reply-To: <7v8y3i7cn9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>>>"MT" == Mike Taht writes: > > > MT> alternatively, "git-archive-torrent" to create a list of files for a > MT> bittorrent feed.... > > That is certainly good for establishing the baseline, but you > still need to leverage the inherent delta-compressibility > between related blobs/trees by also doing something like what I > described as "diff package", don't you? Yes... yes you could have files and diffs generated statically... although something like a bittorrent server/client/frontend, call it "gittorrent" (I hate being the first to make this pun) could walk the hashes dynamically ( Ihave: sha,sha,sha,sha... Sendme: shaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hereswhatyouneedfromgit: file,file,file,diff,diff,diff,...) -- Mike Taht "It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out."