From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 21:23:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Add a "Flattened Cache" to `git --clone`?
Message-ID: <xmqqr1vmp5wf.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200514211040.a7hrirdzgkphx3la@chatter.i7.local>

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?