Re: [RFC] Native access to Git LFS cache

> Hi Duy,
>
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM,  <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ## Proposed solution
>> > Git LFS caches its objects under .git/lfs/objects. Most of the time
>> > Git LFS objects are already available in the cache (e.g. if you switch
>> > branches back and forth). I implemented these "cache hits" natively in
>> > Git.  Please note that this implementation is just a quick and dirty
>> > proof of concept. If the Git community agrees that this kind of
>> > approach would be acceptable then I will start to work on a proper
>> > patch series with cross platform support and unit tests.
>>
>> Would it be possible to move all this code to a separate daemon?
>> Instead of spawning a new process to do the filtering, you send a
>> command "convert this" over maybe unix socket and either receive the
>> whole result over the socket, or receive a path of the result.
>
> Unix sockets are not really portable...