From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:42:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs?
Message-ID: <4D2B7D3E.7090400@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D2B3643.2070106@gmx.de>

On 11/01/11 05:39, John Wyzer wrote:
> Why not provide an alternative mode for the git:// protocoll that
> instead of retrieving a big packaged blob breaks this down to the
> smallest atomic objects from the repository? Those are not changing
> and should be able to survive partial transfers.
> While this might not be as efficient network traffic-wise it would
> provide a solution for those behind breaking connections.

To put this into numbers, for perl.git that might mean transferring 2GB
of data instead of 70MB of pack.

Sam