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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Jello huang <ruifeihuang@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: cannot fetch arm git tree
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:47:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121134728.GO14956@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D398C43.1000306@vollmann.ch>

Hi Detlef,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> On 01/16/11 14:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >Let's say you already have a copy of my tree from a month ago, and Linus
> >has pulled some work from me into his tree, and repacked his tree into one
> >single pack file.  At the moment, the largest pack file from Linus is
> >400MB plus a 50MB index.
> >
> >You already have most of the contents of that 400MB pack file, but if
> >you're missing even _one_ object which is contained within it, git will
> >have to download the _entire_ 400MB pack file and index file to retrieve
> >it.
> I thought this has changed with "smart http" in git 1.6.6.
> Am I missing something?
Well, not all http repos offer smart http.  E.g. Russell doesn't[1],
probably because the serving machine doesn't have the power to nice
serve a repo via git:// or smart http://.

Best regards
Uwe

[1] I didn't recheck though

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikRrewCLGDTU7DjVssjpxz-EFK8AhRScAGPRumg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20110116092315.GA27542@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-16 11:08   ` cannot fetch arm git tree Uwe Kleine-König
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTinrZ0GnT71GCueUUpAXM5ckq+LBd0RjA51DMR-a@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-16 13:42       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-17  1:49         ` Jello huang
2011-01-21 13:38         ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-01-21 13:47           ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-01-21 13:57             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-21 14:28               ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-01-21 14:30                 ` Jello huang
2011-01-21 14:50                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-21 15:14                   ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-01-21 15:25                   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-24  5:01                   ` Miles Bader
2011-01-24  7:21                   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-24  7:34                     ` J.H.
2011-01-24 10:53                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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