Re: [RFC] Native access to Git LFS cache
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jun 28, 2016, 09:40 UTC
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Hi Duy,
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> 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...
Ciao, Dscho