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Re: Remove unneeded packs

From
CSCraig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>
Date
Nov 12, 2005, 13:40 UTC
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On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:04 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
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> every time Linus re-creates the pack for his linux-2.6 tree, I end up
> with another pack. I use HTTP as transport and thus the new pack will 
> be
> download (which is almost 100 MB), but that is fine.
> [snip]

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?

Thanks,
--Craig
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Message 12 of 18 in “Remove unneeded packs”
  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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