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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>,
	Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation/config: add odb.<name>.promisorRemote
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:12:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180926041222.GA743@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd0t1nr93.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:31:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The main issue that this patch series tries to solve is that
> > extensions.partialclone config option limits the partial clone and
> > promisor features to only one remote. One related issue is that it
> > also prevents to have other kind of promisor/partial clone/odb
> > remotes. By other kind I mean remotes that would not necessarily be
> > git repos, but that could store objects (that's where ODB, for Object
> > DataBase, comes from) and could provide those objects to Git through a
> > helper (or driver) script or program.
> 
> I do not think "sources that are not git repositories" is all that
> interesting, unless they can also serve as the source for ext::
> remote helper.  And if they can serve "git fetch ext::...", I think
> they can be treated just like a normal Git repository by the
> backfill code that needs to lazily populate the partial clone.

I don't know about that. Imagine I had a regular Git repo with a bunch
of large blobs, and then I also stored those large blobs in something
like S3 that provides caching, geographic locality, and resumable
transfers.

It would be nice to be able to say:

  1. Clone from the real repo, but do not transfer any blobs larger than
     10MB.

  2. When you need a blob, check the external odb that points to S3. Git
     cannot know about this automatically, but presumably you would set
     a few config variables to point to an external-odb helper script.

  3. If for some reason S3 doesn't work, you can always request it from
     the original repo. That part _doesn't_ need extra config, since we
     can assume that the source of the promisor pack can feed us the
     extra objects[1].

But you don't need to ever be able to "git fetch" from the S3 repo.

Now if you are arguing that the interface to the external-odb helper
script should be that it _looks_ like upload-pack, but simply advertises
no refs and will let you fetch any object, that makes more sense to me.
It's not something you could "git clone", but you can "git fetch" from
it.

However, that may be an overly constricting interface for the helper.
E.g., we might want to be able to issue several requests and have them
transfer in parallel. But I suppose we could teach that trick to
upload-pack in the long run, as it may be applicable even to fetching
from "real" git repos.

Hmm. Actually, I kind of like that direction the more I think about it.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-26  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-02  6:14 [PATCH v4 0/9] Introducing remote ODBs Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:14 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] fetch-object: make functions return an error code Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:14 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] Add initial remote odb support Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:14 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] remote-odb: implement remote_odb_get_direct() Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] remote-odb: implement remote_odb_get_many_direct() Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] remote-odb: add remote_odb_reinit() Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] Use remote_odb_get_direct() and has_remote_odb() Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] Use odb.origin.partialclonefilter instead of core.partialclonefilter Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] t0410: test fetching from many promisor remotes Christian Couder
2018-08-02  6:15 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation/config: add odb.<name>.promisorRemote Christian Couder
2018-08-02 22:55   ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-25  8:07     ` Christian Couder
2018-09-25 22:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-26  4:12         ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-09-26 13:44           ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-26 18:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-16 17:43       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-10-16 22:22         ` Jonathan Tan
2018-10-19  0:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-19  0:33             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-10-19  2:55               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31  6:28         ` Christian Couder
2018-11-01 21:16           ` Jeff King

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