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Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?

From
DBDirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2005, 14:33 UTC
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<435264B1.2010204@de.bosch.com>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510131422161.23590@g5.osdl.org>
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>I have real users of my git repos who can't just download a 100MB pack file in
>>an hour, it takes them many hours.
Seems that I'm one of these users (but using an other repo).

Pack files are very nice saving bandwith and disk space. But what I dislike is that I often have to download same information twice: Remote .git/objects/* repo grows and I update my local repo daily against this. Then once a month/release/whatever .git/objects/* are packed into one file. This new pack file then is downloaded as well, but most/all of the information in this file is already in my local repo and downloaded again. Something like

- detect that there is new pack file in remote repo
- check what is in this remote pack file
- if in local repo no or only few .git/objects/* are missing, download 
the missing ones and create an identical copy of remote pack file using 
local .git/objects/*. Don't download remote pack file.
- remove all local .git/objects/* now in pack file
would be nice.
Or is this already possible? Or do I misunderstand anything?
Dirk
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  1. Linus TorvaldsOct 13, 2005
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  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2005
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  13. Carl BaldwinNov 22, 2005
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  16. Dirk BehmeOct 16, 2005
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  19. Brian GerstOct 16, 2005
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