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Proper Publishing of a Repository

Subject: Proper Publishing of a Repository

## tl;dr

4 messages between Mar 22, 2006 and Mar 22, 2006.

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Jon Loeliger· Mar 22, 2006, 19:17 UTC · lore

Folks,

So, I feel like I missed a step in the grand "How To Publish A Repository" scheme of things.

I made a repo visible over on jdl.com. No problem. But cloning it took forever. So I ran "git-repack" on it. Now cloning only takes hours, not forever.

All this on the linux kernel over HTTP.

Did I miss a step somewhere?

Thanks, jdl

Timo Hirvonen· Mar 22, 2006, 20:16 UTC · re: Jon Loeliger · lore

Re: Proper Publishing of a Repository

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:17:52 -0600 Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> wrote:

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> Folks,
> 
> So, I feel like I missed a step in the grand
> "How To Publish A Repository" scheme of things.
> 
> I made a repo visible over on jdl.com.  No problem.
> But cloning it took forever.  So I ran "git-repack"
> on it.  Now cloning only takes hours, not forever.
> 
> All this on the linux kernel over HTTP.

Use git:// protocol (git-daemon) if possible.  It is much faster.

-- 
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/

Jon Loeliger· Mar 22, 2006, 20:26 UTC · re: Timo Hirvonen · lore

Re: Proper Publishing of a Repository

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:16, Timo Hirvonen wrote:

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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:17:52 -0600
> Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > So, I feel like I missed a step in the grand
> > "How To Publish A Repository" scheme of things.
> > 
> > I made a repo visible over on jdl.com.  No problem.
> > But cloning it took forever.  So I ran "git-repack"
> > on it.  Now cloning only takes hours, not forever.
> > 
> > All this on the linux kernel over HTTP.
> 
> Use git:// protocol (git-daemon) if possible.  It is much faster.

Trust me, if it were an option, I would.  It isn't.

So, I think git-prune-packed was the answer here... jdl

Junio C Hamano· Mar 22, 2006, 20:47 UTC · re: Jon Loeliger · lore

Re: Proper Publishing of a Repository

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

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> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:16, Timo Hirvonen wrote:
>> Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> wrote:
>>
>> > All this on the linux kernel over HTTP.
>> 
>> Use git:// protocol (git-daemon) if possible.  It is much faster.
>
> Trust me, if it were an option, I would.  It isn't.
>
> So, I think git-prune-packed was the answer here...

It really depends on who your audiences are. By packing everything in a single pack, you are optimizing for the initial cloners but punishing incremental updaters.

Since your tree is derived from Linus tree, anybody who is interested in your tree is very likely nterested in Linus tree and chances are that she has a recent copy of it locally. In such a case, I would not be surprised if:

	$ git clone -l -s -n /local-linux-2.6.git/ jdl-linux.git
        $ cd jdl-linux.git
        $ git fetch http://jdl.com/jdl-linux.git master:refs/heads/jdl

goes a lot faster if you have loose objects around in the repository.