Re: Last mile to 1.0?

From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: 2005-07-17 11:18:24
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>>>
>>>    - Anonymous pull from packed archives on remote sites via
>>>      non-rsync, non-ssh transport.  ...
>>>      ... but we may also end up wanting something HTTP
>>>      reachable.
>>
>> For this we need a cgi script that will generate an appropriate
>> pack.
>
> I agree that nothing would beat a pack customized for each
> puller from the bandwidth point of view.  I like the general
> idea of git-daemon Linus did and the cgi script you suggest, but
> I wonder what the CPU/disk load implications for the server.
>

I think you need to nail down the various scenerios that people will be 
useing here.

a very common one will be prople who want to setup a cron job to update 
their local tree nightly, in this case having a pre-generated pack file 
with each day's updates will save a significant amount of processing 
power.

would it make sense to have it do something along the lines of sending the 
day;s pack file plus a small number of individual object (even if the pack 
file will partially duplicate object the puller already has)

David Lang


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