Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-06-28 12:13:08
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> LT> ... Also, please note that the pack-file _only_ packs the commits
> LT> and the things reachable from them ...
> 
> Shouldn't feeding "git-rev-list --object" output plus
> handcrafted list of objects in 2.6.11 tree object to
> git-pack-objects just work???

You could do that. And yes, we can add support for "tag" objects too 
(which the packing doesn't do at all right now. So this is not a 
"fundamental" problem, it's just a practical one right now.

> > [..  git-ssh-pull hopefully working ..]
>
> No.  The pull protocol Dan did expects to throw compressed
> representation around on the wire (which is valid if you assume
> uncompressed transfer) and does not use read-sha1-file --
> write-sha1-file pair, so all three do not work.

Fair enough. I'd prefer for the pull/push to push object packs around 
anyway, so there's some more work there..

		Linus
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