Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Ugly, in any case.
Why not chunk the thing?
In other words, the stream shouldn't be
"here's a big-ass packfile of unknown size"
but an arbitrary number of
"here's a N-byte sized chunk of the current pack file"
snippets, followed by a
"here's the SHA1 of the whole thing"
packet.
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