Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-24

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] serve: add command to advertise bundle URIs

From: Derrick Stolee <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-10 13:58:58

On 8/5/2021 11:07 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
...
+bundle-uri CLIENT AND SERVER EXPECTATIONS
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The advertised bundles MUST contain one or more reference tips for use
+by the client. Bundles that are not self-contained MUST use the
+standard "-" prefixes in the bundle format to indicate their
+prerequisites. I.e. they must be in the standard format "git bundle
+create" would create.
+
+If after an `ls-refs` the client finds that the ref tips it wants can
+be retrieved entirety from advertised bundle(s), it MAY
+disconnect. The results of such a "clone" or "fetch" should be
+indistinguishable from the state attained without using bundle-uri.
+
+The client MAY also keep the connection open pending download of the
+bundle-uris, e.g. should on or more downloads (or their validation)
+fail.
The only technical thought I had (so far) about this proposal was that
leaving the connection open while downloading the bundle would leave
unnecessary load on the servers when no communication is happening.
There is a cost to keeping an open SSH connection, so here it would be
good to at least have the Git client close the connection after
getting a 200 response from the bundle (but not waiting for all of its
contents).

Thanks,
-Stolee
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