Subject: Re: [REROLL PATCH 7/8] Support remote archive from external protocol helpers

From: Ilari Liusvaara <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:16:58 +0200

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:39:42PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ilari Liusvaara <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Helpers which support connect also should support remote archive
> > snapshot (or at least there's only one way to attempt it). So support
> > remote snapshotting for protocol helpers.
> 
> Or "Because the transport layer has been restructured cleanly enough to
> allow passing general payload, there is no reason not to do this change to
> pass 'archive' output in addition to the 'git smart fetch/push protocol'
> payload, and this allows the archive command to take advantage of the
> helper based transports"???

This one is the correct interpretation.

Changed to:
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Support remote archive from all smart transports

Previously, remote archive required internal (non remote-helper)
smart transport. Extend the remote archive to also support smart
transports implemented by remote helpers.
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-Ilari