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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-03 15:04:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-03 15:04:49 -0800 |
| commit | d03553ecd135b32da1c68ffb3190e4efbb616a26 (patch) | |
| tree | ccf6d9fb3abd1a235ad849d87a667af39b4369e6 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-prefetch-cleanup' (diff) | |
| parent | Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d03553ecd135b32da1c68ffb3190e4efbb616a26.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jt/packfile-as-uri-doc'
Doc fix for packfile URI feature.
* jt/packfile-as-uri-doc:
Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt b/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt index 318713abc3..f7eabc6c76 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ at least so that we can test the client. This is the implementation: a feature, marked experimental, that allows the server to be configured by one or more `uploadpack.blobPackfileUri=<sha1> <uri>` entries. Whenever the list of objects to be sent is assembled, all such -blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. The client will download those URIs, -expecting them to each point to packfiles containing single blobs. +blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. As noted in "Future work" below, the +server can evolve in the future to support excluding other objects (or other +implementations of servers could be made that support excluding other objects) +without needing a protocol change, so clients should not expect that packfiles +downloaded in this way only contain single blobs. Client design ------------- |