Re: [PATCH 1/8] pack-objects: add --skip and --skip-hash

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 5, 2016, 09:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602051019580.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1454662677-15137-2-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

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> The idea is, a pack is requested the first time with --skip=0. If pack
> transfer is interrupted, the client will ask for the same pack again,
> but this time it asks the server not to send what it already has. The
> client hashes what it has and sends the SHA-1 to the server. If the
> server finds out the skipped part does not match, it can abort early.

Ah, here it is. This description should definitely go into Documentation/, methinks. Maybe elaborate a little bit more on the "what it has" part?

Ciao, Dscho