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Re: Add a "Flattened Cache" to `git --clone`?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 14, 2020, 21:23 UTC
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> I think something like git-caching-proxy would be a neat project, 
> because it would significantly improve mirroring for CI deployments 
> without requiring that each individual job implements clone.bundle 
> prefetching.
What are we improving with such a proxy, though?

Not bandwidth to the client, apparently. I thought that with the reachability bitmap on the server side with reusing packed object, it was more or less a solved problem that the server end spends way too much time enumerating, deltifying and compressing the object data?

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