From: Daniel Barkalow Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:33:29 GMT Subject: Re: What to expect after 0.99.8 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmzlqnwmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow 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. > > 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank*