From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:33:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705161232120.6410@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90705152225y529c9db3x8615822e876c25a8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On 5/16/07, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Did anyone already think about fetching over HTTP working similarly to the
> > native git protocol?
> 
> Do the indexes have enough info to use them with http ranges? It'd be
> chunkier than a smart protocol, but it'd still work with dumb servers.

It would not be really performant, would it? Besides, not all Web servers 
speak HTTP/1.1...

Ciao,
Dscho