Re: cannot fetch arm git tree
not a lucky dog. i used 1.6.0,there was a large pack.
On 21 January 2011 22:28, Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> wrote:
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> On 01/21/11 14:57, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Detlef,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>> Well, not all http repos offer smart http. E.g. Russell doesn't[1],
>>> probably because the serving machine doesn't have the power to nice
>>> serve a repo via git:// or smart http://.
>>>
>>
>> What is smart http? I don't particularly follow git developments.
>>
> It seems to be an implementation of the git protocol using
> HTTP as transport.
> Some info on this is at <http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html>.
>
> Detlef
>
>
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