Re: git-daemon on NSLU2

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 8/24/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There was idea to special case clone (just concatenate the packs, the
>>> receiving side as someone told there can detect pack boundaries; do not
>>> forget to pack loose objects, first), instead of using generic fetch --all
>>> for clone, bnut no code. Code speaks louder than words (although if someone
>>> would provide details of pack boundary detection...)
>>
>> A related concept, initial clone of a repository does the equivalent
>> of repack -a on the repo before transmitting it. Why aren't we saving
>> those results by switching the repo onto the new pack file? Then the
>> next clone that comes along won't have to do anything but send the
>> file.
>
> If the majority of the access to your repository is the initial
> clone request, then it might be a worthwhile thing to do.  In fact
> didn't we use to have such a "pre-prepared pack" support?
>
> But I do not think "majority is initial clone" is the norm.

Well, as long as the majority is not affected negatively, catering for
a minority better is a strict improvement.  Most repositories will
never get cloned and won't be affected.  But there are some
repositories with a non-trivial amount of cloning.

> Even among the people who does an "initial clone" (from the
> end-user perspective), what they do may not be the initial full
> clone your special hack helps (and that was one of the reasons
> we dropped the pre-prepared pack support --- "been there, done
> that" to some extent).

If it doesn't get used, its presence does no harm, of course except
from having to be maintained and tested.

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