From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
users@kernel.org, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:23:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510131422161.23590@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434EC07C.30505@pobox.com>
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Right now, things go through an expand-contract cycle:
>
> * people base repos off of Marcelo or Linus's git repo, including using those
> pack files (saves download bandwidth, disk space through hardlinks).
>
> * as 3rd parties and Marcelo/Linus merge stuff, .git/objects/* grows with
> individual files.
>
> * once a month/release/whatever, Linus packs his repo, allowing all the repos
> following his to use those pack files, pruning a ton of objects off of
> kernel.org.
>
> I have real users of my git repos who can't just download a 100MB pack file in
> an hour, it takes them many hours.
Argh.
Ok, I'm going to follow this up with three small patches that add a "-l"
flag to "git repack", which does only a "local repack" (ie it will pack
only objects that are _not_ in packs in alternate object directories).
That will hopefully mean that this usage case is supported too.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-13 21:24 UTC|newest]
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2005-10-13 18:44 auto-packing on kernel.org? please? Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <434EABFD.5070604@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <434EC07C.30505@pobox.com>
2005-10-13 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-10-16 14:33 ` [kernel.org users] " Dirk Behme
2005-10-16 15:44 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-16 16:12 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-10-16 16:23 ` Brian Gerst
2005-10-16 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-16 21:33 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-10-16 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-17 6:06 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-10-17 8:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-17 17:41 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-10-17 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-17 22:56 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-17 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 23:54 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-10-17 19:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-16 17:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-16 17:15 ` Brian Gerst
2005-11-21 19:01 ` Carl Baldwin
2005-11-21 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-21 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-21 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-22 5:26 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-22 5:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-22 14:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-22 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <7v64qkfwhe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
[not found] ` <b0943d9e0511220946o3b62842ey@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <7v1x18eddp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-11-23 14:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-22 18:18 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-23 14:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-22 17:25 ` Carl Baldwin
2005-11-22 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
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