Brian Gerst wrote: > Nick Hengeveld wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:44:46AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> >>> This is the problem: it's impossible to download only a few objects >>> from a pack file from an HTTP server, because those don't exist on >>> the server as separate files. >> >> >> 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. >> > > Not possible because the entire pack is compressed. I should have looked at the source more closely before stating that. Each object gets compressed individually, so this would be possible. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Oct 17 03:14:45 2005
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