Hi, Christian Couder wrote: > 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. Yes. >> 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? I think it's worth separating the protocol and the server implementation: The protocol allows arbitrary packfiles --- they do not have to be single-object packfiles. This patch for a server implementation only uses it to serve single-object packfiles. Thanks, Jonathan
