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On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:55:08 -0500 |
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Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/27/2016 8:37 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> > * Git: combined mirror [1] |
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> This one is not very efficient for users to pull down since it creates |
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> massive commits in PR branches and is bloating the repo very quickly. |
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> As of this date, it is 1.2GiB overhead (.git dir) even when |
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> compressed. Compared to the dev repo of 240MiB. |
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And transmitting the metadata/md5-cache via git is quite inefficient, |
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so Github frequently throttles the access to this repo to ~200kbit/s. |
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Another disadvantage is that this sync method is vulnerable to MITM and |
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DNS poisoning attacks (just like rsync), because it's not possible to |
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verify the updates (the automatic commits updating the metadata cache |
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are not signed, and they're too big to review manually). |
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Just my two cents. |
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Regards, |
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Luis Ressel |
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