From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:36:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3 00/16] Add initial experimental external ODB support
Message-ID: <xmqqy400bno3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161130210420.15982-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> For now there should be one odb ref per blob. Each ref name should be
> refs/odbs/<odbname>/<sha1> where <sha1> is the sha1 of the blob stored
> in the external odb named <odbname>.
>
> These odb refs should all point to a blob that should be stored in the
> Git repository and contain information about the blob stored in the
> external odb. This information can be specific to the external odb.
> The repos can then share this information using commands like:
>
> `git fetch origin "refs/odbs/<odbname>/*:refs/odbs/<odbname>/*"`

Unless this is designed to serve only a handful of blobs, I cannot
see how this design would scale successfully.  I notice you wrote
"For now" at the beginning, but what is the envisioned way this will
evolve in the future?