From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: "git-send-pack"
Message-ID: <42C6D36D.4060006@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <12c511ca05070210441c0d3a33@mail.gmail.com>

Tony Luck wrote:
> 
> At least part of the problem for kernel.org is that there around 50 repositories
> that are tracking the 2.6 kernel.  All of them have 50,000 objects that are
> duplicates of each other ... and a few hundred 'unique' objects that belong
> to just one repo, or are minimally shared.
> 
> If there was a way to specify an alternate repo, then a large GIT server like
> kernel.org could set up a "git-history"[1] repo which each of the hosted repos
> could point to.  Then a cron job could look for duplicates, and move them
> off to the history area.
> 

This is why I've been talking about a global object repository -- 
including the problems associated with them.  git as it currently stands 
permit a single global object store, *except* for the issue of duplicate 
tags.

	-hpa