From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:04:32 GMT Subject: Re: git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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