From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:23:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
Message-ID: <43527E86.8000907@didntduck.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051016161244.GE5509@reactrix.com>

Nick Hengeveld wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:44:46AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
>> This is the problem: it's impossible to download only a few objects from a 
>> pack file from an HTTP server, because those don't exist on the server as 
>> separate files.
> 
> Is it possible to determine the object locations inside the remote pack
> file?  If so, it would be possible to use Range: headers to download
> selected objects from a pack.
> 

Not possible because the entire pack is compressed.

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				Brian Gerst