On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 13:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > cameron dale created apt-p2p which is a recreation of a peer-to-peer > file distribution mechanism, and, not surprisingly, it's slow and > problematic. apt is somewhat of a bad fit for bittorrent. You can get a lot of throughput over torrent, but connecting to the swarm and beginning the download generally takes much longer than downloading & installing dozens of packages using the normal apt transport. Also as a matter of implementation they're using a really resource hungry Python implementation of BitTorrent instead of something like libtorrent, which is why I stopped running it. But presumably most uses for GitTorrent (and what you're doing) wouldn't suffer so badly from the latency, you could just leave some daemon on which would download commits in the background. So e.g. if someone submitted a series against git.git to the list 30 minutes ago and he/I were running some git-p2p thingy I could rely on those commits having made it to my repository by now. Just a thought. -- 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