Re: What to expect after 0.99.8

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 3, 2005, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510031709360.23242@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzlqnwmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > Are these all before 1.0, or are some of them supposed to happen 
> > eventually but later?
> 
> The latter.

Good. It would be nice to mark things as being post-1.0 or not.

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> > I'd also like to add:
> >
> >  * Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel.
> >
> > I think this may be necessary to get good performance without rsync for 
> > repositories hosted without specific git support.
> 
> Surely.  I'd love to see you work with Nick Hengeveld on this
> one, perhaps even before 1.0.  Looking out the fetch.c code, I
> think you already have set up a reasonable "work queue" during
> the last round, with a lot of simplification thanks to Sergey,
> and parallel fetching would be a very nice addition.

The code in ssh-fetch already does parallel fetching, actually (only over one connection, but requests are sent before responses are read), so multiple requests are in progress at the same time.

	-Daniel
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