From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:56:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-pack --keep: do not explode into loose objects on the receiving end.
Message-ID: <20061029075638.GB3847@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt6j4l77.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> This adds "keep-pack" extension to send-pack vs receive pack protocol,
> and makes the receiver invoke "index-pack --stdin --fix-thin".

I'm torn on this.  I see that keeping a pack vs. exploding to loose
objects is a local repository decision and thus should be determined
by the receiving repository, not the sending one.

I was thinking of just reading the pack header in receive-pack,
checking the object count, and if its over a configured threshold
call index-pack rather than unpack-objects.  Unfortunately I just
realized that if we read the pack header to make that decision then
its gone and the child process won't have it.  :-(

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