David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a very common one will be prople who want to setup a cron job to > update their local tree nightly, in this case having a pre-generated > pack file with each day's updates will save a significant amount of > processing power. > > would it make sense to have it do something along the lines of sending > the day;s pack file plus a small number of individual object (even if > the pack file will partially duplicate object the puller already has)
I think that would be a reasonable thing to do. The server for anonymous puller, git-daemon, may need some extending. As people criticised, git-upload-pack/git-fetch-pack protocol being not easily extensible, we would end up doing another protocol, though, that's OK. Fortunately [*1*], git-daemon itself is written to be extensible if you are willing to introduce a totally new protocol driver, so if this on-demand pack generation turns out to be too much a resource hog, we have a reasonably easy way out. [Footnote] *1* We are fortunate but that is not by dumb luck. When he did daemon.c::execute(), Linus must have thought things through. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
