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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:10:11 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Nick Hengeveld wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:44:46AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > > This is the problem: it's impossible to download only a few objects from a
> > > pack file from an HTTP server, because those don't exist on the server as
> > > separate files.
> > 
> > Is it possible to determine the object locations inside the remote pack
> > file?  If so, it would be possible to use Range: headers to download
> > selected objects from a pack.
> > 
> 
> Not possible because the entire pack is compressed.

Maybe we should introduce an option which only packs objects of a minimal 
age (something like "pack only objects 2 days and older")? This could be 
used to autopackage as long as HTTP is the preferred protocol, so that if 
you update daily, you already have those objects.

Alternatively, git-prune-packed could have an option to prune only those 
objects older than 2 days.

Ciao,
Dscho