Re: "git-send-pack"

From: Dan Holmsand <holmsand@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 30, 2005, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <42C45FB2.8030206@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vll4r1sxz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>>>>>>"LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> LT> In fact, the most recent push was gone with a
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> LT> 	git-send-pack master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git
> 
> Congrats for a job well done.

Agree totally. And the whole pack thing is really cool. Git is sooo much faster when running from pack-files only on my poor laptop.

> Now is there anything for us poor mortals who would want to have
> a "pull" support?  Logging in via ssh and run send-pack on the
> other end is workable but not so pretty ;-).

Agreed again :-)

Even cooler would be pack-pulls via http. That would be a bit hard on the servers with the current git-pack-objects, but it ought to be possible to create something similar that doesn't re-delta anything, but instead just spits out what's in an existing pack-file, and (perhaps) deltifies objects from the file system.

If people then re-pack their repositories occasionally, this should be plenty fast, the number of files for rsync to deal with could be kept down, as could download times for mortal users.

/dan