Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/16/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> > Do the indexes have enough info to use them with http ranges? It'd be >> > chunkier than a smart protocol, but it'd still work with dumb servers. >> It would not be really performant, would it? Besides, not all Web servers >> speak HTTP/1.1... > > Performant compared to downloading a huge packfile to get 10% of it? > Sure! It'd probably take a few trips, and you'd end up fetching 20% of > the file, still better than 100%. That's why you should have something akin to backup policy for pack files, like daily packs, weekly packs, ..., and the rest, just for the dumb protocols. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
