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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:15:51 -0700
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Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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david@lang.hm wrote:
> 
> on the other hand, it would be a good thing if pack files could be cached.
> 
> in a peer-peer git environment the cache would not be used very much, 
> but when you have a large number of people tracking a central repository 
> (or even a pseudo-central one like the kernel) you have a lot of people 
> upgrading from one point to the next point.
> 

Worth noting that this also applies to the raw git protocol.

	-hpa