Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: 2005-06-29 06:30:04
Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:35:51PM CEST, I got a letter
where Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> told me that...
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > I think the git-*-pull tools are actually just fine. You will only need
> > to have some server-side CGI gadget to frontend the file, but we need
> > that anyway to make the pull reasonably effective.
> 
> Not really -- the use of rsync for the objects fails horribly on slow 
> links when the project scales in the number of commits.  The rsync 
> protocol has to transfer the names of each file and some information 
> about it, and that information isn't delta compressed.  This is where 
> kernel.org is falling over, as well as what makes the kernel tree very 
> painful to use over a dialup modem link.

Yes. But isn't that what I'm after all saying too? git-*-pull tools
shouldn't have that problem since they have much less overhead and only
pull stuff you need.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
<Espy> be careful, some twit might quote you out of context..
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