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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-05 16:31:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-05 16:31:28 -0800 |
| commit | 93da9662d7d19724c622d21b1b1a4f2ec7131b31 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e5275474582ec0c5ffec8db4e6793a8859b7318 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ab/fsck-doc-fix' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI (diff) | |
| download | tgif-93da9662d7d19724c622d21b1b1a4f2ec7131b31.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jt/packfile-as-uri-doc' into maint
Doc fix for packfile URI feature.
* jt/packfile-as-uri-doc:
Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -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 ------------- |