From bfc2a36ff2a705223aed3952130f5b6cbffdbfe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Tan Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:36:57 -0800 Subject: Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI Clarify that, when the packfile-uri feature is used, the client should not assume that the extra packfiles downloaded would only contain a single blob, but support packfiles containing multiple objects of all types. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt b/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt index 318713a..f7eabc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ at least so that we can test the client. This is the implementation: a feature, marked experimental, that allows the server to be configured by one or more `uploadpack.blobPackfileUri= ` entries. Whenever the list of objects to be sent is assembled, all such -blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. The client will download those URIs, -expecting them to each point to packfiles containing single blobs. +blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. As noted in "Future work" below, the +server can evolve in the future to support excluding other objects (or other +implementations of servers could be made that support excluding other objects) +without needing a protocol change, so clients should not expect that packfiles +downloaded in this way only contain single blobs. Client design ------------- -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6