From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: explain why file: URLs and bundles don't mix Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 05:29:01 -0400 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20190514092900.GA11679@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <xmqqv9yebwzp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 05:05:14PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think what is closer to the reaility is that we check if the > source is a bundle when the local filesystem path is used and try to > clone from the bundle, before using the local filesystem path as a > directory we can "clone --local" from. On the other hand, when the > <scheme>://<path> syntax is used, we do not even bother seeing if > the named resource is a bundle, or if --local optimization is > possible (because we do not bother seeing if the named resource is a > local filesystem entity, either). Yeah. My concern on reading Alyssa's patch is that it goes into too much detail about "why", when this is basically just "it's a bug that nobody has yet fixed". I think it makes sense to warn people about the behavior, but we should probably be vague about the reasons and up-front that there is really no good reason that it doesn't work (and it might in the future). Of course fixing the issue is better still. ;) > A possibly interesting tangent to think about is what would happen > if we slightly tweak the above design. What it would require for > the code to take "git clone https://site/repo.bndl", realize that > the named resource is a bundle file, curl/wget it and clone from > that downloaded bundle? And if it is feasible to implement, would > it even be a good idea to begin with? I do not have a ready answer > to either of these questions myself. I've been meaning to come back to this for, oh, going on 8 years now: https://public-inbox.org/git/20111110074330.GA27925@sigill.intra.peff.net/ (though it was meant to work with a CDN "try this first then top-off" strategy; with Jonathan Tan's more flexible CDN work which uses raw packfiles, I doubt I'd come back to this). -Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-14 9:29 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-05-13 0:23 Alyssa Ross 2019-05-13 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano 2019-05-13 16:54 ` Alyssa Ross 2019-05-14 9:30 ` Jeff King 2019-05-14 9:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
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