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Re: [WIP RFC 0/5] Design for offloading part of packfile response to CDN

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2018, 00:01 UTC
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:37 PM Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
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> There is a potential issue: a server which produces both the URIs and
> the packfile at roughly the same time (like the implementation in this
> patch set) will not have sideband access until it has concluded sending
> the URIs. Among other things, this means that the server cannot send
> keepalive packets until quite late in the response. One solution to this
> might be to add a feature that allows the server to use a sideband
> throughout the whole response - and this has other benefits too like
> allowing servers to inform the client throughout the whole fetch, not
> just at the end.

While side band sounds like the right thing to do, we could also sending (NULL)-URIs within this feature.

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Message 30 of 30 in “[WIP RFC 0/5] Design for offloading part of packfile response to CDN”
  1. Jonathan TanDec 3, 2018
  2. 1/5 Documentation: order protocol v2 sectionsJonathan Tan, Dec 3, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2018
  4. Jonathan TanDec 6, 2018
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2018
  6. 2/5 Documentation: add Packfile URIs design docJonathan Tan, Dec 3, 2018
  7. Stefan BellerDec 4, 2018
  8. brian m. carlsonDec 4, 2018
  9. Jonathan TanDec 4, 2018
  10. Christian CouderFeb 19, 2019
  11. Jonathan TanFeb 19, 2019
  12. Christian CouderFeb 22, 2019
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 19, 2019
  14. brian m. carlsonFeb 21, 2019
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 22, 2019
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2018
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2018
  18. Jonathan TanDec 6, 2018
  19. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 19, 2019
  20. Jonathan TanFeb 19, 2019
  21. 3/5 upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects outJonathan Tan, Dec 3, 2018
  22. Stefan BellerDec 4, 2018
  23. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2018
  24. 4/5 upload-pack: refactor writing of "packfile" lineJonathan Tan, Dec 3, 2018
  25. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2018
  26. Jonathan TanDec 6, 2018
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2018
  28. 5/5 upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uriJonathan Tan, Dec 3, 2018
  29. Stefan BellerDec 4, 2018
  30. Stefan BellerDec 4, 2018

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