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

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2019, 22:30 UTC
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<87y340s6ax.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
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<20190423222249.GB98980@google.com>
On Wed, Apr 24 2019, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> 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?

Indeed, it had been a while since I read the first version of this. I was assuming a "base pack" use-case, but it seems it's narrowly isolated to just "N packs each containing one big blob", right?

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Message 32 of 45 in “[WIP 0/7] CDN offloading of fetch response”
  1. Jonathan TanFeb 23, 2019
  2. 1/7 http: use --stdin and --keep when downloading packJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  3. 2/7 http: improve documentation of http_pack_requestJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  4. 3/7 http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URLJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  5. 4/7 Documentation: order protocol v2 sectionsJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  6. 5/7 Documentation: add Packfile URIs design docJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  7. 6/7 upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects outJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  8. 7/7 upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uriJonathan Tan, Feb 23, 2019
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2019
  10. Christian CouderFeb 25, 2019
  11. Jonathan NiederFeb 26, 2019
  12. Christian CouderFeb 26, 2019
  13. Josh SteadmonMar 1, 2019
  14. Jonathan TanMar 1, 2019
  15. Christian CouderFeb 25, 2019
  16. Jonathan NiederFeb 25, 2019
  17. Christian CouderFeb 26, 2019
  18. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 26, 2019
  19. Christian CouderMar 4, 2019
  20. Jonathan NiederFeb 28, 2019
  21. Christian CouderMar 4, 2019
  22. 0/8 CDN offloading of fetch responseJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  23. 1/8 http: use --stdin when getting dumb HTTP packJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  24. 2/8 http: improve documentation of http_pack_requestJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  25. 3/8 http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URLJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  26. 4/8 Documentation: order protocol v2 sectionsJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  27. 5/8 Documentation: add Packfile URIs design docJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  28. Jeff KingApr 23, 2019
  29. Jonathan TanApr 23, 2019
  30. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 23, 2019
  31. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2019
  32. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 23, 2019
  33. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2019
  34. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2019
  35. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 23, 2019
  36. Jonathan NiederApr 23, 2019
  37. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 24, 2019
  38. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2019
  39. 6/8 upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects outJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  40. 7/8 fetch-pack: support more than one pack lockfileJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  41. 8/8 upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uriJonathan Tan, Mar 8, 2019
  42. Josh SteadmonMar 19, 2019
  43. Jeff KingApr 23, 2019
  44. Jonathan TanApr 23, 2019
  45. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 24, 2019

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