From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:15:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git-pull from git.git - no remote ref for pu or next?
Message-ID: <elmv0c$kmd$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121956470.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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)...

cURL the CLI can do this with -r/--range option, so I think that curl
the library can do this too. Mind you, this is HTTP/1.1 extension
(hmmm... I wonder if many sites run HTTP/1.0 only).

See also: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/10/1824245
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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