Re: kernel.org and GIT tree rebuilding

> 
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>This is all due to the rsync sweeps, which have to scan metric tons of 
>>inodes and dentries.  Orders of magnitude over the pre-git days.
> 
> 
> Well, the real solution is to use a git-aware protocol, not rsync.
> 
> rsync is wonderful for prototyping, and I wanted to make the database 
> rsync'able for that reason, but it clearly doesn't scale.
> 
> I think I'll make a "pack"/"unpack" pair that just packs all the necessary
> objects between two commits. Then you can basically sync the object file 
> by doing
> 
> 	git-pack OLD..NEW | ssh other-end git-unpack
> 
> and you'd basically be done. It looks pretty easy to do, too..