Re: [PATCH 2/3] Support for partial HTTP transfers

Nick Hengeveld [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

True.  What I meant by "interesting" is that two is reading from
what one is writing.

Excellent point.  Given the potential for problems related to this
issue or to compressed representation, would it make sense to enable
partial transfers via a command-line option and leave the feature
disabled by default?

Here is what I think.  Multiple transfers at the same time, if
it becomes problem in pratcice, should be prevented at the upper
layer anyway, so this "interesting" problem is a moot point.  So
I'd say let's not worry about that.

Doing partial transfer support for packs and indices would be
more useful addition to your code than dealing with the above --
packs are much bigger than individual objects and would get much
bigger benefit from restartable download.

Different compressed representation is just a theoretical
curiosity and we do not know if it is a problem in practice.  As
long as you can detect the situation and die, it would be OK, I
think.