Re: git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121956470.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612121352520.18171@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > But since the thing needs mirroring for non-git uses too, and since 
> > > rsync generally _works_ apart from the slight race-condition issue, 
> > 
> > ... and git would probably change the pack structure (i.e. which objects 
> > are in which packs, or even loose) which would be too bad for all those 
> > HTTP leechers ...
> 
> I don't see how that would be more of a concern than the current 
> situation with occasional repacks.

Oh well. I did not want to get bashed for something which is probably no problem, but I suspected that the two mirror machines could get out of sync, which could well mean that the new packs would have to be downloaded _twice_. As I said, probably no problem.

But it would become a non-problem when the HTTP transport would learn to read and interpret the .idx files, basically constructing thin packs from parts of the .pack files ("Content-Range:" comes to mind)...

Ciao, Dscho