Re: git-daemon on NSLU2

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

A very simple solution is to sendfile() existing packs if they contain
any objects that the client wants and let the client deal with the
unwanted objects. Yes this does send extra traffic over the net, but
the only group significantly impacted is #2 which is the most
infrequent group.

Loose objects are handled as they are currently. To optimize this
scheme you need to let the loose objects build up at the server and
then periodically sweep only the older ones into a pack. Packing the
entire repo into a single pack would cause recent fetches to retrieve
the entire pack.

I was about to write "but then 'fetch recent' clients will have to get
the entire repo after the upstream does a 'git-repack -a -d'" but you
seem to have figured that out already.

I'm unclear: are you proposing new behavior for git-daemon in general,
or a special mode for resource-constrained servers? If general behavior,
are you suggesting that we never use 'git-repack -a' on repos which
might be cloned?

-Peff