Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] bundle v3: the beginning

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:46:07AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> The high level overview of the patch series I would like to send
> really soon now could go like this:
> 
> ---
> Git can store its objects only in the form of loose objects in
> separate files or packed objects in a pack file.
> To be able to better handle some kind of objects, for example big
> blobs, it would be nice if Git could store its objects in other object
> databases (ODB).
> 
> To do that, this patch series makes it possible to register commands,
> using "odb.<odbname>.command" config variables, to access external
> ODBs. Each specified command will then be called the following ways:
> 
>   - "<command> have": the command should output the sha1, size and
> type of all the objects the external ODB contains, one object per
> line.
>   - "<command> get <sha1>": the command should then read from the
> external ODB the content of the object corresponding to <sha1> and
> output it on stdout.
>   - "<command> put <sha1> <size> <type>": the command should then read
> from stdin an object and store it in the external ODB.

(disclaimer: I didn't look at the patch series)

Does this mean you're going to fork/exec() a new <command> for each of
these? It would probably be better if it was "batched", where the
executable is invoked once and the commands are passed to its stdin.

Mike