On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Bitbucket recently added support for Mercurial’s clonebundle extension >> (http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2015/10/22/cloning-improvements-in-mercurial-3.6/). >> Mercurial’s clone bundles allow the Mercurial client to seed a repository using >> a bundle file instead of dynamically generating a bundle for the client. > ... >> Prior art >> ~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Our proof-of-concept is built on top of ideas that have been >> circulating for a while. We are aware of a number of proposed changes >> in this space: >> >> >> * Jeff King's work on network bundles: >> https://github.com/peff/git/commit/17e2409df37edd0c49ef7d35f47a7695f9608900 >> * Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy's work on "[PATCH 0/8] Resumable clone >> revisited, proof of concept": >> https://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg267260.html >> * Resumable clone work by Kevin Wern: >> https://public-inbox.org/git/1473984742-12516-1-git-send-email-kevin.m.wern@xxxxxxxxx/ > > I think you missed the most common deployment of prior art, which is > Android using the git-repo tool[1]. The git-repo tool has had > clone.bundle support since Sep 2011[2] and the Android Git servers > have been answering /clone.bundle requests[3] since just before that. > The bundle files are generated with `git bundle create` on a regular > schedule by cron. > > [1] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/04071c1c72437a930db017bd4c562ad06087986a/project.py#2091 > [2] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/f322b9abb4cadc67b991baf6ba1b9f2fbd5d7812 > [3] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/clone.bundle There is also Junio's work on Bundle v3 that was unfortunately recently discarded. Look for "jc/bundle" in: http://public-inbox.org/git/xmqq4m0cry60.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ and previous "What's cooking in git.git" emails. I am also working on adding external object database support using previous work by Peff: http://public-inbox.org/git/20161130210420.15982-1-chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ that could be extended to support clone bundles. [...]