Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with

> Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> writes:
> 
>> It seems to me that packfile URIs and bundle URIs are similar enough
>> that we could work out similar logic for both, no? Or maybe there's
>> something I'm missing about the way bundle offloading differs from
>> packfiles.
> 
> Probably we can deprecate one and let the other one take over?  It
> seems that bundleURI have plenty of documentation, but the only hit
> for packfile URI side I find in the output of
> 
>      $ git grep -i 'pack.*file.*uri' Documentation
> 
> is the description of how the designed protocol extension is
> supposed to work in Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt and not
> even the configuration variable uploadpack.blobPackfileURI that
> controls the "experimental" feature is documented.
> 
> Perhaps whoever was adding the feature to the public side stopped
> after pushing out the absolute minimum and lost interest or
> something?  We should update the documentation to reflect the
> current status (e.g. is it still experimental? what more work do we
> need on top of it to make it no longer experimental?), add at least
> minimum description for server operators how to configure it on the
> server side, etc. (I am assuming that the end-user does not have to
> do anything to get the feature, as long as their version of Git is
> recent enough).
> 
> Thanks.
>