Re: [PATCH 00/25] [RFC] Bundle URIs

> On 2/24/2022 9:11 AM, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 2/23/2022 5:17 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 23 2022, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
>
>>>> There have been several suggestions to improve Git clone speeds and
>>>> reliability by supplementing the Git protocol with static content. The
>>>> Packfile URI [0] feature lets the Git response include URIs that point to
>>>> packfiles that the client must download to complete the request.
>>>>
>>>> Last year, Ævar suggested using bundles instead of packfiles [1] [2]. This
>>>> design has the same benefits to the packfile URI feature because it offloads
>>>> most object downloads to static content fetches. The main advantage over
>>>> packfile URIs is that the remote Git server does not need to know what is in
>>>> those bundles. The Git client tells the server what it downloaded during the
>>>> fetch negotiation afterwards. This includes any chance that the client did
>>>> not have access to those bundles or otherwise failed to access them. I
>>>> agreed that this was a much more desirable way to serve static content, but
>>>> had concerns about the flexibility of that design [3]. I have not heard more
>>>> on the topic since October, so I started investigating this idea myself in
>>>> December, resulting in this RFC.
>>>
>>> This timing is both quite fortunate & unfortunate for me, since I'd been
>>> blocked / waiting on various things until very recently to submit a
>>> non-RFC re-roll of (a larger version of) that series you mentioned from
>>> October.
>>>
>>> I guess the good news is that we'll have at least one guaranteed very
>>> interested reviewer for each other's patches, and that the design that
>>> makes it into git.git in the end will definitely be well hashed out :)
>>>
>>> I won't be able to review this in any detail right at this hour, but
>>> will be doing so. I'd also like to submit what I've got in some form
>>> soon for hashing the two out.
>>>
>>> It will be some 50+ patches on the ML in total though related to this
>>> topic, so I think the two of us coming up with some way to manage all of
>>> that for both ourselves & others would be nice. Perhaps we could also
>>> have an off-list (video) chat in real time to clarify/discuss various
>>> thing related to this.
>> 
>> I look forward to seeing your full implementation. There are many things
>> about your RFC that left me confused and not fully understanding your
>> vision.
>
> I am genuinely curious to see your full implementation of bundle URIs.
> I've been having trouble joining the Git IRC chats, but I saw from the
> logs that you are working on getting patches together.
>
> Do you have an expected timeline on that progress?
>
> I would like to move forward in getting bundle URIs submitted as a full
> feature, but it is important to see your intended design so we can take
> the best parts of both to create a version that satisfies us both.