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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Dec 12, 2006, 18:23 UTC
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > 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 ...

Well, as it is, I end up repacking my git archives on kernel.org every two weeks or so anyway, so anybody who uses stupid protocols (rsync or http) will end up downloading everything anew anyway.

And kernel.org will probably start doing automatic repacking, since the current situation just means that some people don't repack on their own, and have tens of thousands of loose objects.

You really don't want to use the non-native protocols unless you have to, or for projects that don't change.

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Message 7 of 22 in “git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next?”
  1. Randal L. SchwartzDec 12, 2006
  2. Randal L. SchwartzDec 12, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2006
  4. Randal L. SchwartzDec 12, 2006
  5. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2006
  8. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2006
  11. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2006
  13. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2006
  17. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2006
  18. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2006
  19. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2006
  20. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2006
  21. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2006
  22. Eric WongDec 12, 2006

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