From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:50:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612121445320.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612122031450.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > But it would become a non-problem when the HTTP transport would learn 
> > > to read and interpret the .idx files, basically constructing thin 
> > > packs from parts of the .pack files ("Content-Range:" comes to 
> > > mind)...
> > 
> > Woooh.
> 
> Does that mean "Yes, I'll do it"? ;-)

Absolutely not.  ;-)  I know next to nothing about HTTP to start with.
It just looks like a crazy idea that might actually work.