From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:16 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC 2009 Prospective student
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902241612510.5511@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200902242208.14199.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Well, this is _cache_. OTOH having pack cache would make it easy to have
> resumable clone if you hit one of cached packfiles on resume...
> 
> On the other hand I wonder what improvements it would give, as generating
> packs with delta reuse is, I think, quite fast...

Object enumeration is still an issue.  A cache would allow skipping that 
part as well, making cached packs about the same as a simple file 
server.


Nicolas