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DateWed, 13 Apr 2005 17:13:06 -0700
FromMatt Mackall <>
SubjectRe: more git updates..
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:42:11AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
> 
> > Now if you can assume that blobs never change and are never deleted,
> > you can simply append them all onto a log, and then index them with a
> > separate file containing an htree of (sha1, offset, length) or the
> > like.
> 
> That mean a problem with rsync, though.

I believe 200k inodes is a problem for rsync too. But we can simply
grab the remote htree, do a tree compare, find the ranges of the
remote file we need, sort and merge the ranges, and then pull them.
That will surely trounce rsync.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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