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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Josef Wolf <jw@raven•inka.de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-Transmission of blobs?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:14:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsixbth4h.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130911112758.GB14259@raven.wolf.lan> (Josef Wolf's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:27:58 +0200")

Josef Wolf <jw@raven•inka.de> writes:

> On Di, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:51:02 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Consider this simple history with only a handful of commits (as
>> usual, time flows from left to right):
>> 
>>               E
>>              /   
>>     A---B---C---D
>> 
>> where D is at the tip of the sending side, E is at the tip of the
>> receiving side.  The exchange goes roughly like this:
>> 
>>     (receiving side): what do you have?
>> 
>>     (sending side): my tip is at D.
>> 
>>     (receiving side): D?  I've never heard of it --- please give it
>>                       to me.  I have E.
>
> At this point, why would the receiving side not tell all the heads it knows
> about?

It did.  The receiving end had only one branch whose tip is E.  It
may have a tracking branch that knows where the tip of the sending
end used to be when it forked (which is C), so the above may say "I
have E and C".  It actually would say "I have B and A and ..." for a
bounded number of commits, but that does not fundamentally change
the picture---the important point is it is bounded and there is a
horizon.

>> There are some work being done to optimize this further using
>> various techniques, but they are not ready yet.

And this still stands.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 13:08 Re-Transmission of blobs? Josef Wolf
2013-09-10 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-11 11:27   ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-11 17:14     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-12  7:42       ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-12  9:23         ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 10:35           ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-12 19:44             ` Jeff King
2013-09-13 10:09               ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-16 21:55                 ` Jeff King
2013-09-20  9:27                   ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-24  7:36                     ` Jeff King
2013-09-24 20:36                       ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-12 12:45           ` Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
2013-09-12 19:56             ` Jeff King
2013-09-12 20:06               ` Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
2013-09-13 10:23                 ` Josef Wolf
2013-09-13 11:51                   ` Jason Pyeron
2013-09-13 12:16                 ` Duy Nguyen

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