git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

From
DVDetlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Date
Jan 21, 2011, 13:38 UTC
Message-ID
<4D398C43.1000306@vollmann.ch>
In-Reply-To
<20110116134248.GD27542@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On 01/16/11 14:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
Show 9 quoted lines
> Let's say you already have a copy of my tree from a month ago, and Linus
> has pulled some work from me into his tree, and repacked his tree into one
> single pack file.  At the moment, the largest pack file from Linus is
> 400MB plus a 50MB index.
>
> You already have most of the contents of that 400MB pack file, but if
> you're missing even _one_ object which is contained within it, git will
> have to download the _entire_ 400MB pack file and index file to retrieve
> it.

I thought this has changed with "smart http" in git 1.6.6. Am I missing something?

   Detlef
Previous: Jello huangNext: Uwe Kleine-König
Message 4 of 15 in “Re: cannot fetch arm git tree”
  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 16, 2011
  2. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 16, 2011
  3. Jello huangJan 17, 2011
  4. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  5. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  6. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  7. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  8. Jello huangJan 21, 2011
  9. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 21, 2011
  10. Detlef VollmannJan 21, 2011
  11. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 21, 2011
  12. Miles BaderJan 24, 2011
  13. Johannes SixtJan 24, 2011
  14. J.H.Jan 24, 2011
  15. Russell King - ARM LinuxJan 24, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.