On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 13:11, Julien Danjou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22 2011, Dave Borowitz wrote: > > > hg-git has examples of actually using the client module, and perhaps > Augie > > can chime in with some of his experience. > > Yeah, that does help, thanks a lot. > It seems that object_store.generate_pack_contents can be used to > generate packs. Maybe that could be set a a default in send/push method. > > I'll deep further and see how I can write a determine_wants function. > > > It is the hardest to support :) > > I should have guessed it. > > > The stateless HTTP protocol is different from but related to the stateful > > TCP wire protocol, so it's not just a matter of making an HTTP connection > > instead of TCP/SSH. > > Yeah, I though it was that way. I at least hope supporting the smart > version of the HTTP protocol is not *that* hard. :-| In a nutshell: there is a back-and-forth of HTTP requests/responses until the client sends "done". In the n+1th request, the client begins by sending one "have" line for each "ACK <sha> common" received in the nth request. This allows the server to essentially recreate the state it would have had by this point in the corresponding stateful negotiation. (Take a moment and convince yourself that this is the case.) > > I would poke around in the Documentation/technical directory of git.git > > until you understand the wire protocol; that's basically what I did to > > implement HTTP server support. If you have questions, I can help clarify, > or > > you can ask the git mailing list about things where the documentation is > > unclear. > > I already read and understood most of the protocol, but did not spend > time imagining how I would implement the HTTP client, since I though > until 1 hour ago that Dulwich supported it. > But I'll dig further as soon as I've some time to spend on it and will > come back to bother you if I need. > > Thanks for the hints Dave. :) > > -- > Julien Danjou > ❱ http://julien.danjou.info >
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