From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:23:01 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC][RESEND][PATCH] Allow fetching from multiple repositories at once Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060923170439.GQ8259@pasky.or.cz> Hi, On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 06:57:36PM CEST, I got a letter > where A Large Angry SCM said that... > > Petr Baudis wrote: > > >You still need to pass git-fetch-pack some URL in addition to the > > >repositories - it is used only for git_connect(), the purpose is that > > >repositories must be local directories so if you want to talk remote, you > > >need to do something like > > > > > > git-fetch-pack git://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > > > --repo=/pub/scm/git/git.git master next > > > --repo=/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git master > > > > > > > Can't this be done with a simple wrapper around git-fetch* ? > > The point is that that is too slow (the difference is noticeable > especiall in the case there is no new stuff ready), you need to create a > connection and do whole lot of work for each of the repositories. I still firmly believe that it would be way more efficient to fetch all those branches into _one_ proxy repository. Especially since you can reuse the objects with an alternate, which has an additional benefit over your approach. And _then_, you can make a wrapper script, which guarantees that the alternate is set, and that the ref is actually fetched from the proxy. Ciao, Dscho