From: Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:38:11 GMT
Subject: Re: cannot fetch arm git tree
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:
> 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