From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:13:08 GMT Subject: Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support! Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vwtofi6jk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > LT> ... Also, please note that the pack-file _only_ packs the commits > LT> and the things reachable from them ... > > Shouldn't feeding "git-rev-list --object" output plus > handcrafted list of objects in 2.6.11 tree object to > git-pack-objects just work??? You could do that. And yes, we can add support for "tag" objects too (which the packing doesn't do at all right now. So this is not a "fundamental" problem, it's just a practical one right now. > > [.. git-ssh-pull hopefully working ..] > > No. The pull protocol Dan did expects to throw compressed > representation around on the wire (which is valid if you assume > uncompressed transfer) and does not use read-sha1-file -- > write-sha1-file pair, so all three do not work. Fair enough. I'd prefer for the pull/push to push object packs around anyway, so there's some more work there.. Linus