Re: [PATCH 2/3] protocol v2: specify static seeding of clone/fetch via "bundle-uri"

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Oct 30, 2021, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID: <c46db4a8-c705-6c6c-bcb3-b2d294120dce@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <211027.86ilxixoxz.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

An aside:

On 27/10/2021 19:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> I don't think you can say "this bundle has no blobs". The
> "prerequisites" hard map to the same thing you could put on a
> "want/have" line during PACK negotiation.
>
> I think we could/should fix that, i.e. we can

> bump the bundle format
> version and have it encode some extended prerequisites/filter/shallow
> etc information.

If the format is bumped, could we also include the HEAD=<particular-branch> info within that format. The `guess the HEAD` algorithm isn't ideal and shows up in user questions every now and again.

>  You'd then have a 1=1 match between the features of
> git-upload-pack and what you can transfer via the bundle side-channel.

-- Philip