Re: Smart fetch via HTTP?

> On 5/18/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> If you have a solution for that problem, please enlighten me: I don't.
> 
> Ok - worst case scenario - have a minimal hints file that tells me the
> ranges to fetch all commits and all trees. To reduce that Add to the
> hints file data to name the hashes (or even better - offsets) for the
> delta chains that contain commits+trees relevant to all the heads -
> minus 10, 20, 30, 40 commits and 1,2,4,8 and 16 days.
> 
> So there's a good chance the client can get the commits+trees needed
> efficiently. For blobs, all you need is the index to mark the delta
> chains you need.