RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-23 Thread Ben Peart
ruary 7, 2017 1:21 PM > To: 'Christian Couder' > Cc: 'Jeff King' ; 'git' ; 'Johannes > Schindelin' ; Ben Peart > > Subject: RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > No worries about a late response, I'm sure this is the

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Ben Peart
from Facebook to share ideas. Ben > -Original Message- > From: Jakub Narębski [mailto:jna...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 4:57 PM > To: Ben Peart ; 'Christian Couder' > > Cc: 'Jeff King' ; 'git' ; 'Johannes > Sc

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Jakub Narębski
I'd like to point to two (or rather one and a half) solutions that I got aware of when watching streaming of "Git Merge 2017"[0]. There should be here people who were there; and hopefully video of those presentations and slides / notes would be soon available. [0]: http://git-merge.com/ First to

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Ben Peart
lin > > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > (Sorry for the late reply and thanks to Dscho for pointing me to this thread.) > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Ben Peart wrote: > >> From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net] On Fri, Jan 13,

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-05 Thread Christian Couder
(Sorry for the late reply and thanks to Dscho for pointing me to this thread.) On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Ben Peart wrote: >> From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net] >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Ben Peart wrote: >> >> > Clone and fetch will pass a --lazy-clone flag (open t

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-18 Thread Ben Peart
> Cc: Ben Peart ; Shawn Pearce > ; git ; > benpe...@microsoft.com > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Martin Fick > wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote: > >> While

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote: >> While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue >> today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when >> any individual developer only needs a small percentage of >> th

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Martin Fick
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote: > While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue > today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when > any individual developer only needs a small percentage of > them. Git with 3+ million local files just doesn't > perform

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Ben Peart
Thanks for the encouragement, support, and good ideas to look into. Ben > -Original Message- > From: Shawn Pearce [mailto:spea...@spearce.org] > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 4:07 PM > To: Ben Peart > Cc: git ; benpe...@microsoft.com > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add suppo

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Ben Peart
7 1:43 PM > To: Ben Peart > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; Ben Peart > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > This is an issue I've thought a lot about. So apologies in advance that this > response turned out a bit long. :) > > On Fri, J

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Jeff King
This is an issue I've thought a lot about. So apologies in advance that this response turned out a bit long. :) On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Ben Peart wrote: > Design > ~~ > > Clone and fetch will pass a �--lazy-clone� flag (open to a better name > here) similar to �--depth� th

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-13 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Ben Peart wrote: > > Goal > > > To be able to better handle repos with many files that any individual > developer doesn’t need it would be nice if clone/fetch only brought down > those files that were actually needed. > > To enable that, we are proposing addin

[RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-13 Thread Ben Peart
Goal To be able to better handle repos with many files that any individual developer doesn’t need it would be nice if clone/fetch only brought down those files that were actually needed. To enable that, we are proposing adding a flag to clone/fetch that will instruct the server to limit