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.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jun 29 06:35:38 2005
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