url formats/mechanisms

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:57 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> There aren't any good rsync libraries (ask Martin why :-) so we have to
> use the commandline tool, which is only really good for batched
> download, not any kind of smart operation like partial retrieval or
> incremental download queueing.  So I think the best way to do an
> implementation of 'native' rsync would be to make/update a local mirror,
> then do operations using the local mirror.

As it happens, I was asking Martin this on Thursday :).

The rsync protocol is unable to send incremental requests - its batch at
a time, connection per batch. :p.

I think we *might* be able to do something with ssh rsync where we
invoke rsync for each batch, which would at least reduce three-way
handshaking.

Rob

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