On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:39 AM Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Teach upload-pack to send part of its packfile response as URIs. > > An administrator may configure a repository with one or more > "uploadpack.blobpackfileuri" lines, each line containing an OID and a > URI. A client may configure fetch.uriprotocols to be a comma-separated > list of protocols that it is willing to use to fetch additional > packfiles - this list will be sent to the server. So only packfiles will be fetched by the client using those protocols. > Whenever an object > with one of those OIDs would appear in the packfile transmitted by > upload-pack, the server may exclude that object, and instead send the > URI. Ok, so each URI sent in the packfile corresponds to exactly one object. And when the client fetches one such URI it gets a packfile that contains only the corresponding object. Or is there something I misunderstood? > The client will then download the packs referred to by those URIs > before performing the connectivity check.
