From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:59:56 GMT Subject: Re: GIT push to sftp (feature request) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f90708051700t7a758f8fwdf7c63c8aeef9ee8@mail.gmail.com> "Martin Langhoff" writes: > On 8/6/07, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> > Using dumb protocols it's impossible to do either. >> >> That's not exactly true. You can't be as efficient with dumb protocols > > You are right -- I should have said: it's pretty hard, and we haven't > put the effort ;-) Yes, that seems more accurate. >> (its ancestor, >> GNU Arch, also had a way to be network-efficient on dumb protocols). > > Do I remember your name from gnuarch-users? Possibly so, yes. I also remembered yours from the old good time where people started explaining why they unsubscribed the list and migrated to something better ;-). > -- that Arch/tla was never particularly efficient, and fetches of > large updates were slow and painful. Surely it was efficient on > paper though :-p It was actually efficient in terms of bandwidth. You downloaded only the needed pieces (this has to do with the fact that the original author wrote it at a time when he had only a slow modem connection). But badly pipelined, and local operations were slow, so the result was obviously _very_ far from what git can do. -- Matthieu