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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:14:48 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Sam Vilain wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:27 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:17:55PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > WRT the HTTP protocol, I was questioning git's ability to resume the 
> > > transfer of a pack in the middle if such transfer is interrupted without 
> > > redownloading it all. And Mike Hommey says this is actually the case.
> > With rsync:// it was helpful to split the pack, and resume there worked
> > reasonably (see my other mail about the segfault that turns up
> > sometimes).
> > 
> > More recent discussions raised the possibility of using git-bundle to
> > provide a more ideal initial download that they CAN resume easily, as
> > well as being able to move on from it.
> 
> Hey Robin,
> 
> Now that the GSoC projects have been announced I can give you the good
> news that one of our two projects is to optimise this stage in
> git-daemon; I'm hoping we can get it down to being almost as cheap as
> the workaround you described in your post.  I'll certainly be using your
> repository as a test case :-)

Please keep me in the loop as much as possible.  I'd prefer we're not in 
disagreement over the implementation only after final patches are posted 
to the list.


Nicolas