Re: [RFC] Design for http-pull on repo with packs

Junio C Hamano wrote: Dan Holmsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Repacking all of that to a single pack file gives, somewhat surprisingly, a pack size of 62M (+ 1.3M index). In other words, the cost of getting all those branches, and all of the new stuff from Linus, turns out to be *ne

Re: [RFC] Design for http-pull on repo with packs

Junio C Hamano wrote: One very minor problem I have with Holmsand approach [*1*] is that the original Barkalow puller allowed a really dumb http server by not requiring directory index at all. For somebody like me with a cheap ISP account [*2*], it was great that I did not have to update 256 ind

Re: [RFC] Design for http-pull on repo with packs

Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Dan Holmsand wrote: Daniel Barkalow wrote: If an individual file is not available, figure out what packs are available: Get the list of pack files the repository has (currently, I just use "e3117bbaf6a59cb53c3f6f0d9b17b9433f0e4135")

Re: [RFC] Design for http-pull on repo with packs

Daniel Barkalow wrote: I have a design for using http-pull on a packed repository, and it only requires one extra file in the repository: an append-only list of the pack files (because getting the directory listing is very painful and failure-prone). A few comments (as I've been tinkering with