From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 01:06:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150521050645.GA27478@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmw0yle0y.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:01:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 1. Assuming that "seed" is a reasonable verb for this concept, is
> > "--seed=<repo>" OK for the option? Would "--seed-from=<repo>" be
> > better? (Also, the response "bleh, seed is a terrible name" is
> > fine, too, but only if accompanied by your own suggestion :) ).
>
> The seed may not even have to be a repository. A bundle file hosted
> on CDN that is reachable via (resumable) wget would be another good
> way to prime the well, and it would fit with the above framework
> nicely. Grab it, fetch from it into a temporary hierarchy and then
> run "fetch --prune" against the repository you originally wanted to
> clone from.
Yeah, I was just looking over the list archives for the past few months,
for things I had marked as "to read and think about later"[1]. That's
how I recalled our prior discussion on --dissociate.
Anyway, I happened upon the "prime the clone from a bundle" concept
being discussed again recently, and had the same thought. We already
treat local bundles as a possible source for fetching/cloning. Once upon
a time I had some patches that would let you clone straight from a
bundle over http (it just spooled to disk, which is not the _most_
efficient way to do it, but trying to massage the bundle straight into a
packfile[2] ends up every complex very quickly). I should resurrect those
patches.
-Peff
[1] My "think about later" mailbox has ~5000 messages in it, some of
which are from 2010. I think I may need to just declare bankruptcy.
[2] There's that word again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-21 4:14 [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference Jeff King
2015-05-21 4:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] clone: use OPT_STRING_LIST for --reference Jeff King
2015-05-21 4:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] clone: reorder --dissociate and --reference options Jeff King
2015-05-21 4:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] clone: add `--seed` shorthand Jeff King
2015-05-21 16:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-21 19:45 ` Philip Oakley
2015-05-22 6:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-22 6:49 ` Jeff King
2015-05-24 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 8:19 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-22 6:50 ` Jeff King
2015-05-21 5:01 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference Junio C Hamano
2015-05-21 5:06 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-21 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-24 23:53 ` Michael Haggerty
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