Re: Pushing vs. alternates

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 24, 2006, 05:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmz7muvqu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061024035335.GW20017@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

>   I don't have time to code that myself right now, so I'm just tossing
> an idea around - pushing to a directory with alternates set up should
> avoid sending objects that are already in the alternate object database.

That is probably only relevant for the first time, since subsequent pushes have refs from its own repository that tracks the tips of branches that was pushed for the last time.

And first time usage when you are initializing the repository with alternates, you have direct access to that repository (that's how you can set up alternates), you can as easily do the initial fetch/clone as well at that time.

So it might be a nice addition but I suspect it would not matter much in practice.