On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:59 PM, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:40:50PM CET, I got a letter > where Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com> said that... >> The 100MB situation is not cool for those of us on a tight bandwidth >> budget or slow links. Can anyone tell me if the native git protocol is >> any better at this stuff please? > > Yes, the native GIT protocol transfers only the objects you need. Ah, magic, thanks! > But the 100MB situation is still bad. FWIW, this is my proposal I sent > about a month ago to some packs-related discussion at the kernel.org > mailing list (ok, I updated it a little): It would be nice if there was some meaningful automatic packing that didn't hurt "non-git-aware protocol" users. Does the pack index file contain enough information to enable a client to send http byte range requests to grab individual objects from a pack? It does seem to store object offsets but maybe I'm missing something ... Thank you, --Craig - 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 Sun Nov 13 02:18:49 2005
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