Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

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Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:

> ...  So people who are willing
> to participate as part of the peer2peer network can download the
> instructions for how to make the canonical pack once a month, and use it
> to create the canonical pack.  If the "Gittorrent master" has spent a
> lot of time to carefully compute the most efficient set of delta
> pairings, they will get the slight benefit of a more efficient pack
> which they could use instead of th eir local one without having to use
> large values of --window and --depth to "git repack".

Hmm, is the idea essentially to tell people "Here is a snapshot of Linus
repository as of a few weeks ago, carefully repacked.  Instead of running
"git clone" yourself, please bootstrap your repository by copying it over
bittorrent and then "git pull" to update it"?


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