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Re: [REROLL PATCH 7/8] Support remote archive from external protocol helpers

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 8, 2009, 23:39 UTC
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Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> writes:
> Helpers which support connect also should support remote archive
> snapshot (or at least there's only one way to attempt it). So support
> remote snapshotting for protocol helpers.

Sorry, but I cannot parse this "should", and cannot understand how the first sentence leads to the conclusion ("So") that we must have this patch.

"They should support it when able, because doing so gives them _this nice property_ (that is unspecified)"???

Or "They must support it because we are changing the code not to work without"???

Or "Because the transport layer has been restructured cleanly enough to allow passing general payload, there is no reason not to do this change to pass 'archive' output in addition to the 'git smart fetch/push protocol' payload, and this allows the archive command to take advantage of the helper based transports"???

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Message 21 of 23 in “Remote helpers smart transport extensions”
  1. 0/8 Remote helpers smart transport extensionsIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  2. 1/8 Add remote helper debug modeIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  4. 2/8 Support mandatory capabilitiesIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  6. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  7. 3/8 Pass unknown protocols to external protocol handlersIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  9. Bert WesargDec 9, 2009
  10. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  11. 4/8 Refactor git transport options parsingIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  12. 5/8 Support taking over transportsIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  14. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2009
  16. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  17. 6/8 Support remote helpers implementing smart transportsIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  19. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  20. 7/8 Support remote archive from external protocol helpersIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
  22. Ilari LiusvaaraDec 9, 2009
  23. 8/8 Remove special casing of http, https and ftpIlari Liusvaara, Dec 8, 2009

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