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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'

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C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date
Apr 20, 2005, 21:55 UTC
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> I think one thing git's objects database is not very well suited for are
> network transports. You want to have something smart doing the
> transports, comparing trees so that it can do some delta compression;
> that could probably reduce the amount of data needed to be sent
> significantly.
I'm hoping my 'chunking' patches will fix this.  This ought to reduce the 
size of the object store by (in effect) doing delta compression; rsync
will then Do The Right Thing and only transfer the needed deltas.
Running some benchmarks right now to see how well it lives up to this 
promise...
  --scott
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Message 20 of 23 in “[ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'”
  1. Tom LordApr 20, 2005
  2. Miles BaderApr 20, 2005
  3. duchier@ps.uni-sb.deApr 20, 2005
  4. Tomas MrazApr 20, 2005
  5. Denys DuchierApr 21, 2005
  6. Tomas MrazApr 21, 2005
  7. duchier@ps.uni-sb.deApr 21, 2005
  8. Tomas MrazApr 20, 2005
  9. Tom LordApr 21, 2005
  10. Tom LordApr 21, 2005
  11. Tom LordApr 20, 2005
  12. Denys DuchierApr 21, 2005
  13. Tom LordApr 21, 2005
  14. Tomas MrazApr 21, 2005
  15. Tom LordApr 21, 2005
  16. Tom LordApr 21, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsApr 22, 2005
  18. Edésio Costa e SilvaApr 22, 2005
  19. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  20. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  21. chunking (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git')Linus Torvalds, Apr 20, 2005
  22. C. Scott AnanianApr 20, 2005
  23. blowing chunks (quick update)C. Scott Ananian, Apr 22, 2005

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