Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Add bundle-uri: resumably clones, static "dumb" CDN etc.

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

Or perhaps not, but they're my currently my best effort to explain the
differences between the two and how they interact. So I think it's best
to point to those instead of coming up with something in this reply,
which'll inevitably be an incomplete rewrite of much of that.

In short, there are use-cases that packfile-uri is inherently unsuitable
for, or rather changing the packfile-uri feature to support them would
pretty much make it indistinguishable from this bundle-uri mechanism,
which I think would just add more confusion to the protocol.

Hm.  I was hoping you might say more about those use cases --- e.g. is
there a concrete installation that wants to take advantage of this?
By focusing on the real-world example, we'd get a better shared
understanding of the underlying constraints.

After all, both are ways to reduce the bandwidth of a clone or other
large fetch operation by offloading the bulk of content to static
serving.

Thanks,
Jonathan