On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:27 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:17:55PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > WRT the HTTP protocol, I was questioning git's ability to resume the > > > transfer of a pack in the middle if such transfer is interrupted without > > > redownloading it all. And Mike Hommey says this is actually the case. > > With rsync:// it was helpful to split the pack, and resume there worked > > reasonably (see my other mail about the segfault that turns up > > sometimes). > > > > More recent discussions raised the possibility of using git-bundle to > > provide a more ideal initial download that they CAN resume easily, as > > well as being able to move on from it. > > Hey Robin, > > Now that the GSoC projects have been announced I can give you the good > news that one of our two projects is to optimise this stage in > git-daemon; I'm hoping we can get it down to being almost as cheap as > the workaround you described in your post. I'll certainly be using your > repository as a test case :-) Please keep me in the loop as much as possible. I'd prefer we're not in disagreement over the implementation only after final patches are posted to the list. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html