From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:09:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
Message-ID: <46a038f90705170709j7eb23d4fy6811fc2985dd888d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705171445100.6410@racer.site>

On 5/18/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> If you have a solution for that problem, please enlighten me: I don't.

Ok - worst case scenario - have a minimal hints file that tells me the
ranges to fetch all commits and all trees. To reduce that Add to the
hints file data to name the hashes (or even better - offsets) for the
delta chains that contain commits+trees relevant to all the heads -
minus 10, 20, 30, 40 commits and 1,2,4,8 and 16 days.

So there's a good chance the client can get the commits+trees needed
efficiently. For blobs, all you need is the index to mark the delta
chains you need.

cheers,


m