Re: "git-send-pack"

Tony Luck wrote:

At least part of the problem for kernel.org is that there around 50 repositories
that are tracking the 2.6 kernel.  All of them have 50,000 objects that are
duplicates of each other ... and a few hundred 'unique' objects that belong
to just one repo, or are minimally shared.

If there was a way to specify an alternate repo, then a large GIT server like
kernel.org could set up a "git-history"[1] repo which each of the hosted repos
could point to.  Then a cron job could look for duplicates, and move them
off to the history area.

This is why I've been talking about a global object repository -- 
including the problems associated with them.  git as it currently stands 
permit a single global object store, *except* for the issue of duplicate 
tags.

	-hpa