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Re: Balanced packing strategy

From
CSCraig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>
Date
Nov 12, 2005, 15:14 UTC
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<b6abcb70496730705046934973221b93@codefountain.com>
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<20051112135947.GC30496@pasky.or.cz>
On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:59 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:40:50PM CET, I got a letter
> where Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com> said that...
>> The 100MB situation is not cool for those of us on a tight bandwidth
>> budget or slow links. Can anyone tell me if the native git protocol is
>> any better at this stuff please?
>
> Yes, the native GIT protocol transfers only the objects you need.
Ah, magic, thanks!
> But the 100MB situation is still bad. FWIW, this is my proposal I sent
> about a month ago to some packs-related discussion at the kernel.org
> mailing list (ok, I updated it a little):

It would be nice if there was some meaningful automatic packing that didn't hurt "non-git-aware protocol" users.

Does the pack index file contain enough information to enable a client to send http byte range requests to grab individual objects from a pack? It does seem to store object offsets but maybe I'm missing something ...

Thank you,
--Craig
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  1. Marcel HoltmannNov 12, 2005
  2. Andreas EricssonNov 12, 2005
  3. Marcel HoltmannNov 12, 2005
  4. Lukas SandströmNov 12, 2005
  5. Marcel HoltmannNov 12, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 13, 2005
  7. Lukas SandströmNov 13, 2005
  8. Sergey VlasovNov 13, 2005
  9. Lukas SandströmNov 13, 2005
  10. Sergey VlasovNov 13, 2005
  11. Lukas SandströmNov 13, 2005
  12. Craig SchlenterNov 12, 2005
  13. Balanced packing strategyPetr Baudis, Nov 12, 2005
  14. Craig SchlenterNov 12, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 13, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisNov 13, 2005
  17. Josef WeidendorferNov 13, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 13, 2005

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