From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Barkalow Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Support for packs in HTTP Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:53:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 10 22:02:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dri02-0008RU-9w for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:02:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262087AbVGJT7W (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:59:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261652AbVGJT4c (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:56:32 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:38660 "EHLO iabervon.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262090AbVGJTzP (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:55:15 -0400 Received: from barkalow (helo=localhost) by iabervon.org with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 1Drhra-00078S-00; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:53:18 -0400 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This series has one patch which is ready to go in and one that's not (although it's a reasonable phony for the current state of the git world). 1: Several additional functions are needed in the library to support progressively getting pack data from some remote location and using it to determine what else to get. 2: git-http-pull can get packs as appropriate by getting all the index files first, and then using them to figure out whether the object it's looking for is in some pack it could get. Currently, there's no sane way to figure out what pack/index files are available from an HTTP server. But there only seems to be one pack file available on an HTTP server at the moment, so this tries to get that one. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*