Hi Duy,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM,  <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > ## 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.

Yes, I will have to work on that. But I might need to ask for a change in
the design if I hit some obstacle there: named pipes are not the same at
all as Unix sockets.

Read: it will be painful, and not a general solution. So every new Unix
socket that you introduce will introduce new problems for me.

Ciao,
Dscho
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