From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:47:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B6F2C7.1010801@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808281432240.1624@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> Should I change the HTTP protocol then to use the same format,
>> so they have a better chance at sharing code between them?
>
> Given that the ref exchange happens on multiple lines (one ref per line)
> in the native protocol, and that your proposal is using one line for
> multiple refs, I don't see this as a big factor wrt code reuse. Since
> you'll have separate "output" code anyway, why not simply going with
> refs in straight binary for the HTTP protocol? Even the debugability of
> refs exchange in plain text is dubious especially with all refs on the
> same line (that'll be a pain to split refs out of a long stream of hex
> by hand).
Well, I think the real question was to go to multiple lines,
native-protocol style, or go to binary.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 1:26 Git-aware HTTP transport Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 2:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 3:45 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 3:59 ` david
2008-08-26 4:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 4:25 ` david
2008-08-26 4:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 4:45 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-26 17:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-26 17:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 4:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 14:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 16:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-26 17:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-26 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-27 2:51 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-28 3:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 4:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 4:42 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 6:40 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-28 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-28 14:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:26 ` david
2008-08-28 17:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:37 ` david
2008-08-28 17:38 ` Daniel Stenberg
2008-08-28 17:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:04 ` Mike Hommey
2008-08-28 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:12 ` david
2008-08-28 18:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 18:18 ` david
2008-08-29 4:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-29 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-29 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-29 17:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-29 19:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-01 16:05 ` Tarmigan
2008-09-01 16:13 ` Tarmigan
2008-09-02 6:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-02 6:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-02 6:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-02 18:20 ` Tarmigan
2008-08-28 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-28 17:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-28 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-13 1:34 ` Git-aware HTTP transport docs H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-13 2:23 ` Scott Chacon
2013-02-13 15:29 ` Junio C Hamano
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