From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:47:16 GMT
Subject: Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?
Message-ID: <43382614.6080907@didntduck.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050926163604.GC21019@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:41:54PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> told me that...
> 
>>The other problem with HTTP vs. rsync is that the HTTP fetch will walk 
>>the entire tree down to the root to verify it has every object.  While 
>>this isn't a bad thing it's usually unnecessary when it's all in one big 
>>pack file.
> 
> 
> Is that really the case? I believe it will walk only to the original ref
> and assume everything before is complete. (Actually, it doesn't even
> seem to honor the --recover patch anymore, which isn't so nice
> especially in case some objects disappeared from your database and you
> would like to get them back. Happenned to me.)

I was talking about the initial pull.  It does stop at the previous head 
for updates.

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				Brian Gerst