Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

From: Mike Taht <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:42:23 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>>>>"MT" == Mike Taht <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> 
> MT> alternatively, "git-archive-torrent" to create a list of files for a
> MT> bittorrent feed....
> 
> That is certainly good for establishing the baseline, but you
> still need to leverage the inherent delta-compressibility
> between related blobs/trees by also doing something like what I
> described as "diff package", don't you?

Yes... yes you could have files and diffs generated statically...

although something like a bittorrent server/client/frontend, call it 
"gittorrent" (I hate being the first to make this pun) could walk the 
hashes dynamically (
Ihave: sha,sha,sha,sha... Sendme: shaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hereswhatyouneedfromgit: file,file,file,diff,diff,diff,...)

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Mike Taht

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