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Subject: Re: Resumable clone/Gittorrent (again) - stable packs?
From: Zenaan Harkness <zen () freedbms ! net>
Date: 2011-01-07 10:04:49
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 16:31, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:22:07AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> the reason I am
> interested in this expanded definition of mirroring is for a few
> features people have been asking for:
>
> 1. restartable clone; any bundle format is easily restartable using
> standard protocols
This is very important to me. I have failed to establish an initial
repo for a few larger projects, some apache projects and opentaps most
recently. It is getting _really_ frustrating.
> 2. avoid too-big clones; I remember the gentoo folks wanting to
> disallow full clones from their actual dev machines and push people
> off to some more static method of pulling. I think not just because
> of restartability, but because of the load on the dev machines
And of course the lack of restartability causes an ongoing increase in
the load on the machines delivering those large clones.
> 3. people on low-bandwidth servers who fork major projects; if I write
> three kernel patches and host a git server, I would really like
> people to only fetch my patches from me and get the rest of it from
> kernel.org
This is not so much of a problem - can already be handled by cloning
your linux-full.git to a private dir, and only publishing your shallow
"personal patches only" clone, or better still, just a tar-ball of
your 3 patches, or email them, or etc.
So I agree with the big issues being restartable large clones and
lowering server loads.
Zen
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