Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:08:58 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Kernel SCM saga.. |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:12:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>really designed for something like a offline http grabber, in that you can >>just grab files purely by filename (and verify that you got them right by >>running sha1sum on the resulting local copy). So think "wget". > > > I'm not entirely convinced wget is going to be an efficient way to > synchronize and fetch your tree, its simplicitly is great though. It's a > tradeoff between optimzing and re-using existing tools (like webservers). > Perhaps that's why you were compressing the stuff too? It sounds better > not to compress the stuff on-disk, and to synchronize with a rsync-like > protocol (rsync server would make it) that handles the compression in > the network protocol itself, and in turn that can apply compression to a > large blob (i.e. the diff between the trees), and not to the single tiny > files.
It's my understanding that the files don't change. Only new ones are created for each revision.
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