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From: Ted Nyman <tnyman@openai.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
	"Karthik Nayak" <karthik.188@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] http: use unique tempfiles for packfile URI downloads
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:31:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alaAi4vNwi-KabYV@com-76773> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcxwptpb0.fsf@gitster.g>

> I share that sentiment. I am not entirely convinced by Ted's
> response, since a major goal of the packfile URI feature, as I
> understand it, is to allow the use of resumable protocols for
> large transfers.

Agreed. I was too quick to dismiss the loss of resumption.

I'll take another look at preserving the predictable partial pack while
preventing concurrent writers, including the handoff and stale-file
cases Peff raised. Dumb HTTP has the same underlying concurrency issue,
so I'll keep that path in mind as well before sending a reroll.

Thanks,
Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-14 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-13 22:37 [PATCH 0/2] packfile URIs: support concurrent downloads Ted Nyman
2026-07-13 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] http: use unique tempfiles for packfile URI downloads Ted Nyman
2026-07-14  1:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-14  1:58     ` Ted Nyman
2026-07-14  4:07       ` Taylor Blau
2026-07-14  5:28       ` Jeff King
2026-07-14 18:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-14 18:31           ` Ted Nyman [this message]
2026-07-14  4:06   ` Taylor Blau
2026-07-14  5:44     ` Jeff King
2026-07-14  6:46   ` Jeff King
2026-07-13 22:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] fetch-pack: accept "pack" output for packfile URIs Ted Nyman
2026-07-14  7:12   ` Jeff King
2026-07-14  7:13     ` Jeff King
2026-07-14 18:38     ` Ted Nyman
2026-07-14  4:13 ` [PATCH 0/2] packfile URIs: support concurrent downloads Taylor Blau

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