From: sf Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:17:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-http-fetch: Allow caching of retrieved objects by proxy servers Message-ID: <43285B24.7050907@b-i-t.de> In-Reply-To: <20050913153858.GB24405@master.mivlgu.local> Sergey Vlasov wrote: > By default the curl library adds "Pragma: no-cache" header to all > requests, which disables caching by proxy servers. However, most > files in a GIT repository are immutable, and caching them is safe and > could be useful. Is caching really safe? Because of compression one git object can have many file representations. Regards Stephan