[git-users] Re: Git pull/checkout streaming API/CLI

2019-09-08 Thread fru xo
Hi again :) Thanks for all the feedback, really appreciate it! If when you say “run git locally” you mean perform the actual checkout by running the usual commands, that is what I’m currently doing just to unlock myself, but being this part of an API server and being the purpose to store the

[git-users] Re: Git pull/checkout streaming API/CLI

2019-09-08 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi F, Yes, the https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protocols are the ones that could be considered as an API. Though it maybe worth simply running Git locally so that you don't need to write any code..just a few scripts. Other options are looking at Git Bundle, which is

[git-users] Re: Git pull/checkout streaming API/CLI

2019-09-08 Thread fru xo
Hi Phillip, thanks for the pointers. I did not know about fast-import/export, I’ll have a look as streaming is what I need :) As far as pack streams, is this what you refer to https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protocols ? I’ve read it this morning, not sure yet if it’ll do

[git-users] Re: Git pull/checkout streaming API/CLI

2019-09-08 Thread Philip Oakley
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 9:55:23 AM UTC+1, fru xo wrote: > > Hi all, > I’d love to be able to issue a git pull/checkout and stream its results to > an on-line cloud storage for another party there to actually downloading it > and working with the source. > Roughly just pipe all from a