Re: [RFD] server-info to help clients

2005-07-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
The management of multiple packs and strategy of deciding when to create the next incremental (be it throw-away or permanent) is something I am not particularly interested in at this moment, and as you correctly pointed out, the "single throw-away pack" is an example of _bad_ strategy [*1*]. I am

Re: [RFD] server-info to help clients

2005-07-19 Thread David Lang
ul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:20:58 -0700 From: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RFD] server-info to help clients While things are quiet (I envy everybody having fun at

[RFD] server-info to help clients

2005-07-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
While things are quiet (I envy everybody having fun at OLS), I've been cooking something to help clients to pull from dumb servers. I assume that: - The object database is packed, following the recommendations in the "Working with Others" section of the tutorial. - The repository owner _may