From: C. Scott Ananian Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:55:59 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050420213114.GF19112@pasky.ji.cz> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > 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 terrorist AEROPLANE munitions PAPERCLIP MI5 Morwenstow WSHOOFS CABOUNCE colonel Yakima AES MI6 nuclear NSA Cocaine Columbia plastique LICOZY ( http://cscott.net/ )