not a lucky dog. i used 1.6.0,there was a large pack. On 21 January 2011 22:28, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 01/21/11 14:57, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >> >>> 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://. >>> >> >> What is smart http? I don't particularly follow git developments. >> > It seems to be an implementation of the git protocol using > HTTP as transport. > Some info on this is at . > > Detlef > > -- JUST DO IT,NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE