From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:50:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101100846220.6883@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinVYWit95O9Y0r5BKJiMGJRAOvgPqZ0s8Eez7KJ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > Here's what I suggest:
> >
> >        cd my_project
> >        BUNDLENAME=my_project_$(date "+%s").gitbundle
> >        git bundle create $BUNDLENAME --all
> >        maketorrent-console your_favorite_tracker $BUNDLENAME
> >
> > Then start seeding that bundle, and upload $BUNDLENAME.torrent as
> > bundle.torrent inside my_project.git on your server.
> 
> I was about to ask if we could put more "trailer" sha-1 checksums to
> the bundle, so we can verify which part is corrupt without
> redownloading the whole thing (this is over http/ftp.. not torrent).

Aren't HTTP and FTP based on TCP which is meant to be a reliable 
transport protocol already?  In this case, isn't the final SHA1 embedded 
in the bundle/pack sufficient enough?  Normally, your HTTP/FTP client 
should get you all data or partial data, but not wrong data.


Nicolas