From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:50:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802111950000.3870@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550802111120x24338cd6n6eb1f6db55fe487f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > So it happens to be just faster to re-clone the whole thing by 
> > > upstream.
> >
> > So what you are doing is passing the work, unnecessary work I'd say, 
> > to some poor server. Not nice.
> 
> To a poor net bandwidth I would say because cloning from zero just 
> downloads the packages.

Not exactly.  Remember, if you did not "repack" via clone, the server 
would spend less cycles _and_ bandwidth on you.  Namely zero.

Ciao,
Dscho