Re: "git-send-pack"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2005, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506301357280.14331@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vll4r1sxz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Now is there anything for us poor mortals who would want to have
> a "pull" support?  Logging in via ssh and run send-pack on the
> other end is workable but not so pretty ;-).

I'm thinking about it. You can't actually do send-pack from the other end, since send-pack needs to know what the base is, and the base you have may not even exist in the remote.

So a "git-pull-pack" will follow the objects on the other side until it hits one we have, and _then_ it can send a nice pack. It's not hard per se, and some of the problems are actually simpler than git-send-pack, but it needs more communication (and in order to be efficient you want to not ping-pong a "do-you-have-it" query every time around).

I also want to make sure that the biggest burden is on the pull side, not the push side. I have a plan, though.

		Linus