RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-23 Thread Ben Peart
> To: 'Christian Couder' <christian.cou...@gmail.com> > Cc: 'Jeff King' <p...@peff.net>; 'git' <git@vger.kernel.org>; 'Johannes > Schindelin' <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>; Ben Peart > <benpe...@microsoft.com> > Subject: RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs o

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Ben Peart
.net>; 'git' <git@vger.kernel.org>; 'Johannes > Schindelin' <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>; Ben Peart > <benpe...@microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > I'd like to point to two (or rather one and a half) solutions t

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Jakub Narębski
I'd like to point to two (or rather one and a half) solutions that I got aware of when watching streaming of "Git Merge 2017"[0]. There should be here people who were there; and hopefully video of those presentations and slides / notes would be soon available. [0]: http://git-merge.com/ First

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-07 Thread Ben Peart
<p...@peff.net>; git <git@vger.kernel.org>; Johannes Schindelin > <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > (Sorry for the late reply and thanks to Dscho for pointing me to this thread.) > > On Tue, Jan 1

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-02-05 Thread Christian Couder
(Sorry for the late reply and thanks to Dscho for pointing me to this thread.) On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Ben Peart wrote: >> From: Jeff King [mailto:p...@peff.net] >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Ben Peart wrote: >> >> > Clone and fetch will pass a

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-18 Thread Ben Peart
@codeaurora.org> > Cc: Ben Peart <peart...@gmail.com>; Shawn Pearce > <spea...@spearce.org>; git <git@vger.kernel.org>; > benpe...@microsoft.com > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Martin Fick &

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote: >> While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue >> today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when >> any individual developer only needs a

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Martin Fick
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote: > While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue > today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when > any individual developer only needs a small percentage of > them. Git with 3+ million local files just doesn't >

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Ben Peart
...@microsoft.com > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Ben Peart <peart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Goal > > > > > > To be able to better handle repos with many files that any in

RE: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Ben Peart
> To: Ben Peart <peart...@gmail.com> > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand > > This is an issue I've thought a lot about. So apologies in advance that this > response turned out a

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-17 Thread Jeff King
This is an issue I've thought a lot about. So apologies in advance that this response turned out a bit long. :) On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Ben Peart wrote: > Design > ~~ > > Clone and fetch will pass a �--lazy-clone� flag (open to a better name > here) similar to �--depth�

Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-13 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Ben Peart wrote: > > Goal > > > To be able to better handle repos with many files that any individual > developer doesn’t need it would be nice if clone/fetch only brought down > those files that were actually needed. > > To enable that,

[RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand

2017-01-13 Thread Ben Peart
Goal To be able to better handle repos with many files that any individual developer doesn’t need it would be nice if clone/fetch only brought down those files that were actually needed. To enable that, we are proposing adding a flag to clone/fetch that will instruct the server to limit