Seeking information about lightweight copying/renaming

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:38:17PM +0200, Sune Foldager wrote:
> On 06-04-2010 17:24, Paul Malmsten wrote:
> > What were the protocol issues which prevented further progress?
> 
> Well, it's some details about how to extend the current protocol in a
> more flexible way. It turns out that the current http protocol has more
> flexibility in most respects than the ssh one, so it was work to unify
> the feature set by introducing a new protocol version.
> 
> It stranded a bit due to disagreements over the design, which have yet
> to be resolved... and hopefully very soon.

Any work in this area will need synchronizing between the various
protocol modifications affecting changegroup:
- lw renames
- parent delta
- (possibly) discovery
and potentially:
- progress support
- restartable pull/clone (I don't think anyone really worked on it)

Cheers,

Benoit
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