Re: [PATCH 0/14] resumable network bundles

[David Michael Barr <davidbarr@google.com>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> One possible option for resumable clones that has been discussed is
> letting the server point the client by http to a static bundle
> containing most of history, followed by a fetch from the actual git repo
> (which should be much cheaper now that we have all of the bundled
> history).  This series implements "step 0" of this plan: just letting
> bundles be fetched across the network in the first place.
>
> Shawn raised some issues about using bundles for this (as opposed to
> accessing the packfiles themselves); specifically, this raises the I/O
> footprint of a repository that has to serve both the bundled version of
> the pack and the regular packfile.
>
> So it may be that we don't follow this plan all the way through.
> However, even if we don't, fetching bundles over http is still a useful
> thing to be able to do. Which makes this first step worth doing either
> way.
>
>  [01/14]: t/lib-httpd: check for NO_CURL
>  [02/14]: http: turn off curl signals
>  [03/14]: http: refactor http_request function
>  [04/14]: http: add a public function for arbitrary-callback request
>  [05/14]: remote-curl: use http callback for requesting refs
>  [06/14]: transport: factor out bundle to ref list conversion
>  [07/14]: bundle: add is_bundle_buf helper
>  [08/14]: remote-curl: free "discovery" object
>  [09/14]: remote-curl: auto-detect bundles when fetching refs
>  [10/14]: remote-curl: try base $URL after $URL/info/refs
>  [11/14]: progress: allow pure-throughput progress meters
>  [12/14]: remote-curl: show progress for bundle downloads
>  [13/14]: remote-curl: resume interrupted bundle transfers
>  [14/14]: clone: give advice on how to resume a failed clone
>
> -Peff
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I just want to say thank you for doing this.--David Barr