On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hi Detlef, > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > On 01/16/11 14:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > >Let's say you already have a copy of my tree from a month ago, and Linus > > >has pulled some work from me into his tree, and repacked his tree into one > > >single pack file. At the moment, the largest pack file from Linus is > > >400MB plus a 50MB index. > > > > > >You already have most of the contents of that 400MB pack file, but if > > >you're missing even _one_ object which is contained within it, git will > > >have to download the _entire_ 400MB pack file and index file to retrieve > > >it. > > I thought this has changed with "smart http" in git 1.6.6. > > Am I missing something? > Well, not all http repos offer smart http. E.g. Russell doesn't[1], > probably because the serving machine doesn't have the power to nice > serve a repo via git:// or smart http://. What is smart http? I don't particularly follow git developments. -- 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