On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 02:27:25PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > I would've thought somebody had done this by now, but I guess > > > it's dependent on a bunch of things (TLS layer nowadays, maybe > > > HTTP/2), so git-daemon support alone wouldn't cut it... > > > > Polling is not all bad, especially for large repository collections. > > I disagree with that statement. > > IIRC, More than half the bandwidth of Googles git servers are used > for ls-remote calls (i.e. polling a lot of repos, most of them did *not* > change, by build bots which are really eager to try again after a minute). Oh, that's not the kind of polling I meant -- we monitor a single manifest file containing the state of all repositories. It's a static file served directly by any httpd daemon, and the only traffic is usually the "not modified" http header. -K
