Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce a "promisor-remote" capability
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Sep 30, 2024, 16:34 UTC
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> I guess it helps to address part of the problem. I'm not sure whether my > understanding is aligned with Chris' intention, but I could certainly > see that at some point in time we start to advertise promisor remote > URLs that use different transport helpers to fetch objects. This would > allow hosting providers to offload objects to e.g. blob storage or > somesuch thing and the client would know how to fetch them. > > But there are still a couple of pieces missing in the bigger puzzle: > ... > I think chipping away the problems one by one is fine. But it would be > nice to draw something like a "big picture" of where we eventually want > to end up at and how all the parts connect with each other to form a > viable native replacement for Git LFS.
Yes, thanks for stating this a lot more clearly than I said in the reviews so far.
> Also Cc'ing brian, who likely has a thing or two to say about this :)