Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2019, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20190423222249.GB98980@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <871s1stlf4.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> This is really orthagonal to this series, but wouldn't a better
> resumption strategy here be to walk the pack we just downloaded, run the
> equivalent of 'commit-graph write' on it to figure out likely "tip"
> commits, and use those in "have" lines to negotiate with the server the
> next time around?

Do you mean this for when a pack is self-contained and contains all objects reachable from those "tip" commits?

What would you do when a pack is not self-contained in that way?

Thanks, Jonathan

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