On Wed, Apr 24 2019, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> This is really orthagonal to this series, but wouldn't a better >> resumption strategy here be to walk the pack we just downloaded, run the >> equivalent of 'commit-graph write' on it to figure out likely "tip" >> commits, and use those in "have" lines to negotiate with the server the >> next time around? > > Do you mean this for when a pack is self-contained and contains all > objects reachable from those "tip" commits? > > What would you do when a pack is not self-contained in that way? Indeed, it had been a while since I read the first version of this. I was assuming a "base pack" use-case, but it seems it's narrowly isolated to just "N packs each containing one big blob", right?
