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Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Christian Couder , git@vger.kernel.org, John Cai , Taylor Blau , Eric Sunshine , Michael Haggerty , "brian m. carlson" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce a "promisor-remote" capability In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:57:17 +0200") References: <20240731134014.2299361-1-christian.couder@gmail.com> <20240910163000.1985723-1-christian.couder@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:34:59 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > I guess it helps to address part of the problem. I'm not sure whether my > understanding is aligned with Chris' intention, but I could certainly > see that at some point in time we start to advertise promisor remote > URLs that use different transport helpers to fetch objects. This would > allow hosting providers to offload objects to e.g. blob storage or > somesuch thing and the client would know how to fetch them. > > But there are still a couple of pieces missing in the bigger puzzle: > ... > I think chipping away the problems one by one is fine. But it would be > nice to draw something like a "big picture" of where we eventually want > to end up at and how all the parts connect with each other to form a > viable native replacement for Git LFS. Yes, thanks for stating this a lot more clearly than I said in the reviews so far. > Also Cc'ing brian, who likely has a thing or two to say about this :)