On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> However this means that the progress meter will now be wrong and that's
> terrible !  Users *will* complain that the meter doesn't reach 100% and
> they'll protest for being denied the remaining objects during the
> transfer !
>
> Joking aside, we should think about doing something about it.  I was
> wondering if some kind of prefix to the pack stream could be inserted
> onto the wire when sending a pack v4.  Something like:
>
> 'T', 'H', 'I', 'N', <actual_number_of_sent_objects_in_network_order>
>
> This 8-byte prefix would simply be discarded by index-pack after being
> parsed.
>
> What do you think?

I have no problem with this. Although I rather we generalize the case
to support multiple packs in the same stream (in some case the server
can just stream away one big existing pack, followed by a smaller pack
of recent updates), where "thin" is just a special pack that is not
saved on disk. So except for the signature difference, it should at
least follow the pack header (sig, version, nr_objects)
-- 
Duy
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