From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please? Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:56:49 -0700 Message-ID: <7vzmp9xuwe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <434EABFD.5070604@zytor.com> <434EC07C.30505@pobox.com> <435264B1.2010204@de.bosch.com> <20051016161244.GE5509@reactrix.com> <43527E86.8000907@didntduck.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 16 18:58:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERBp3-0007mu-Dn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:57:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751205AbVJPQ4v (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:56:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751327AbVJPQ4v (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:56:51 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net ([68.230.241.28]:37827 "EHLO fed1rmmtao11.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205AbVJPQ4v (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:56:51 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051016165637.OIWX9394.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:56:37 -0400 To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43527E86.8000907@didntduck.org> (Brian Gerst's message of "Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:23:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brian Gerst writes: >> Is it possible to determine the object locations inside the remote >> pack >> file? If so, it would be possible to use Range: headers to download >> selected objects from a pack. That's what the .idx file is for, except that after you fetch the range, you may find you would need something else that the object is delta against.