Re: Last mile to 1.0?

From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2005, 01:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507161815100.15383@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <7vy8869ryi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>>>
>>>    - Anonymous pull from packed archives on remote sites via
>>>      non-rsync, non-ssh transport.  ...
>>>      ... but we may also end up wanting something HTTP
>>>      reachable.
>>
>> For this we need a cgi script that will generate an appropriate
>> pack.
>
> I agree that nothing would beat a pack customized for each
> puller from the bandwidth point of view.  I like the general
> idea of git-daemon Linus did and the cgi script you suggest, but
> I wonder what the CPU/disk load implications for the server.
>

I think you need to nail down the various scenerios that people will be useing here.

a very common one will be prople who want to setup a cron job to update their local tree nightly, in this case having a pre-generated pack file with each day's updates will save a significant amount of processing power.

would it make sense to have it do something along the lines of sending the day;s pack file plus a small number of individual object (even if the pack file will partially duplicate object the puller already has)

David Lang

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