Re: [RFC] Native access to Git LFS cache

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Duy,

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

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## Proposed solution
Git LFS caches its objects under .git/lfs/objects. Most of the time
Git LFS objects are already available in the cache (e.g. if you switch
branches back and forth). I implemented these "cache hits" natively in
Git.  Please note that this implementation is just a quick and dirty
proof of concept. If the Git community agrees that this kind of
approach would be acceptable then I will start to work on a proper
patch series with cross platform support and unit tests.

Would it be possible to move all this code to a separate daemon?
Instead of spawning a new process to do the filtering, you send a
command "convert this" over maybe unix socket and either receive the
whole result over the socket, or receive a path of the result.

Unix sockets are not really portable...

It's the same situation as index-helper. I expect you guys will
replace the transport with named pipe or similar.
-- 
Duy