Sorry for not paying attention to this patch set earlier. I missed (and might still miss) the big picture(tm) here. This is because http://public-inbox.org/git/ffd92ad9-39fe-c76b-178d-6e3d6a425037@xxxxxxxxxx/ seemed to be specific for big binary files, but ... On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In particular, patch 1 demonstrates that a new server endpoint that > serves refs without the initial ref advertisement can be done in 228 > lines of code (according to "git diff --stat") while accounting for the > various special cases that upload-pack imposes (stateless RPC, inclusion > of an additional response when depth is requested, handling of "done" in > request, sending a packfile directly after a response containing "ACK > ready" without waiting for "done", and so on). ... from looking at the patches, this actually implements the idea that was thrown around on the mailing list as "client speaks first", as this essentially omits the refs advertisement, and then continues the conversation by running upload-pack as normal. That seems very exciting to me! > To that end, I'm sending these patches in the hope of showing that these > features are useful (omitting ref advertisements help greatly when > serving large repos, as described in the commit message of patch 1, and > serving blobs is useful for any fetch-blob-on-demand repo scheme) and > that my proposed way of implementing them can be done in a relatively > uncomplicated manner (as seen in these patches). Yes, if we encapsulate v1 protocol on (both?) sides, we seem to need very little additional code, but get the benefit of using lots of well tested code. Thanks, Stefan
