Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:51:52 -0700

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24 2019, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Do you mean this for when a pack is self-contained and contains all
>> objects reachable from those "tip" commits?
>>
>> What would you do when a pack is not self-contained in that way?
>
> Indeed, it had been a while since I read the first version of this. I
> was assuming a "base pack" use-case, but it seems it's narrowly isolated
> to just "N packs each containing one big blob", right?

The demo in this patch series covers the single isolated blob case.
The protocol supports the "base pack" use case but many others as
well:

* daily "catch-up fetch" packs
* "base pack without blobs"
* ... etc ...

Thanks,
Jonathan