From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:27:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce a "promisor-remote" capability
Message-ID: <xmqq4j5w4w1p.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZvsXlq7-28mdxNc_@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> One idea I had about this was pluggable storage backends, which might be
> a nice feature to add via a dynamically loaded shared library.  In
> addition, this seems like the kind of feature that one might like to use
> Rust for, since it probably will involve HTTP code, and generally people
> like doing that less in C (I do, at least).

Yes, yes, and yes.

>> Also Cc'ing brian, who likely has a thing or two to say about this :)
>
> I certainly have thought about this a lot.  I will say that I've stepped
> down from being one of the Git LFS maintainers (endless supply of work,
> not nearly enough time), but I am still familiar with the architecture
> of the project.

Thanks.