From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 04:51:00 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2011, #06; Fri, 13) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vsjsh5gjw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The sending side of "git push" (aka "send-pack") and "git fetch" (aka > "upload-pack") should also be Ok because pack-objects has known to handle > large blob in a pack by copying the bits straight without re-deltifying. Sending a lot increases chance of unexpected disconnecting. But that's not the focus now. > I however think the receiving end still wants to hold everything in core. > It would be the natural next thing to fix around this area before doing > anything else. If somebody is interested, look at the receiving end > ("index-pack" and "unpack-objects") while I am still busy in this topic. I looked at index-pack before. Will see how to fix it (that is if I'm not busy with pathspec stuff) -- Duy