Re: GIT push to sftp (feature request)

"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:

On 8/6/07, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

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Using dumb protocols it's impossible to do either.

That's not exactly true. You can't be as efficient with dumb protocols

You are right -- I should have said: it's pretty hard, and we haven't
put the effort ;-)

Yes, that seems more accurate.

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(its ancestor,
GNU Arch, also had a way to be network-efficient on dumb protocols).

Do I remember your name from gnuarch-users?

Possibly so, yes. I also remembered yours from the old good time where
people started explaining why they unsubscribed the list and migrated
to something better ;-).

-- that Arch/tla was never particularly efficient, and fetches of
large updates were slow and painful. Surely it was efficient on
paper though :-p

It was actually efficient in terms of bandwidth. You downloaded only
the needed pieces (this has to do with the fact that the original
author wrote it at a time when he had only a slow modem connection).
But badly pipelined, and local operations were slow, so the result was
obviously _very_ far from what git can do.

-- 
Matthieu