Re: "git-send-pack"

Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

For the purposes of rsync, storing the objects in a single append-only 
file would be a very efficient method, since the rsync algorithm will 
quickly discover an invariant head and only transmit the tail.

Actually, it won't be "quick" - it will have to read the whole file and do 
it's hash window thing.

It does that, but it only have to do that when the actual file has 
changed.  That's acceptable, at least for the repository sizes we're 
likely to deal with within the medium term.

	-hpa