Re: cannot fetch arm git tree

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:47:28PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

Hi Detlef,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:

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On 01/16/11 14:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

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Let's say you already have a copy of my tree from a month ago, and Linus
has pulled some work from me into his tree, and repacked his tree into one
single pack file.  At the moment, the largest pack file from Linus is
400MB plus a 50MB index.

You already have most of the contents of that 400MB pack file, but if
you're missing even _one_ object which is contained within it, git will
have to download the _entire_ 400MB pack file and index file to retrieve
it.

I thought this has changed with "smart http" in git 1.6.6.
Am I missing something?

Well, not all http repos offer smart http.  E.g. Russell doesn't[1],
probably because the serving machine doesn't have the power to nice
serve a repo via git:// or smart http://.

What is smart http?  I don't particularly follow git developments.