From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:01:02 GMT Subject: Re: Smart fetch via HTTP? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f90705170709j7eb23d4fy6811fc2985dd888d@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/18/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > If you have a solution for that problem, please enlighten me: I don't. > > Ok - worst case scenario - have a minimal hints file that tells me the > ranges to fetch all commits and all trees. To reduce that Add to the > hints file data to name the hashes (or even better - offsets) for the > delta chains that contain commits+trees relevant to all the heads - > minus 10, 20, 30, 40 commits and 1,2,4,8 and 16 days. NO ! This is unreliable, unnecessary, and actually kills the beauty of the solution's simplicity. You get updates for every branches the remote has, period. No server side extra files, no guesses, no arbitrary ranges, no backward compatibility issues, no crap! Nicolas