Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Eric Wong <e...@80x24.org> writes: > > >> [primeclone] > >> url = http://location/pack-$NAME.pack > >> filetype = pack > > > > If unconfigured, I wonder if a primeclone pack can be inferred by > > the existence of a pack bitmap (or merely being the biggest+oldest > > pack for dumb HTTP). > > That would probably be a nice heuristics but it is unclear who > should find that out at runtime. The downloading side would not > have a visiblity into directory listing.
I think making a bunch of HEAD requests based on the contents of $GIT_DIR/objects/info/packs wouldn't be too expensive on either end, especially when HTTP/1.1 persistent connections + pipelining may be used.
