Re: Balanced packing strategy

On 12 Nov 2005, at 3:59 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:

Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:40:50PM CET, I got a letter
where Craig Schlenter [off-list ref] said that...

quoted

The 100MB situation is not cool for those of us on a tight bandwidth
budget or slow links. Can anyone tell me if the native git protocol is
any better at this stuff please?

Yes, the native GIT protocol transfers only the objects you need.

Ah, magic, thanks!

But the 100MB situation is still bad. FWIW, this is my proposal I sent
about a month ago to some packs-related discussion at the kernel.org
mailing list (ok, I updated it a little):

It would be nice if there was some meaningful automatic packing that
didn't hurt "non-git-aware protocol" users.

Does the pack index file contain enough information to enable a client
to send http byte range requests to grab individual objects from a pack?
It does seem to store object offsets but maybe I'm missing something ...

Thank you,

--Craig