Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] FEATURE PLANS: "perfect" summary deltas

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:48:47AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Well, this is an evolution of the ideas we discussed a while back about 
> smart servers.  The DELTA command proposed back then would provide one 
> or more changesets which could be applied to produce the revision.
> 
> The problem is, that assumes the server knows the best way for a 
> particular client to produce a revision.  I think the right way is to 
> break it up into a LIST-DELTAS command, that lists deltas that the 
> server is willing provide.  (This may need to contain a token, so a 
> smart server doesn't wind up overpromising and underdelivering.)  Then, 
> the DELTA command can be used to retrieve the individual changesets.
> 
> You can see how easy that would be to implement with a directory of deltas.

In general that's not very useful, because the server should really be
building deltas and caching based on demand. I think you need a more
sophisticated discovery mechanism for that, possibly in more than one
request-response pair.

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