On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However this means that the progress meter will now be wrong and that's > terrible ! Users *will* complain that the meter doesn't reach 100% and > they'll protest for being denied the remaining objects during the > transfer ! > > Joking aside, we should think about doing something about it. I was > wondering if some kind of prefix to the pack stream could be inserted > onto the wire when sending a pack v4. Something like: > > 'T', 'H', 'I', 'N', <actual_number_of_sent_objects_in_network_order> > > This 8-byte prefix would simply be discarded by index-pack after being > parsed. > > What do you think? I have no problem with this. Although I rather we generalize the case to support multiple packs in the same stream (in some case the server can just stream away one big existing pack, followed by a smaller pack of recent updates), where "thin" is just a special pack that is not saved on disk. So except for the signature difference, it should at least follow the pack header (sig, version, nr_objects) -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html