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Doc fix for packfile URI feature. * jt/packfile-as-uri-doc: Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
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Documentation/technical/packfile-uri.txt

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This is the implementation: a feature, marked experimental, that allows the
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server to be configured by one or more `uploadpack.blobPackfileUri=<sha1>
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<uri>` entries. Whenever the list of objects to be sent is assembled, all such
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blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. The client will download those URIs,
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expecting them to each point to packfiles containing single blobs.
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blobs are excluded, replaced with URIs. As noted in "Future work" below, the
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server can evolve in the future to support excluding other objects (or other
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implementations of servers could be made that support excluding other objects)
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without needing a protocol change, so clients should not expect that packfiles
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downloaded in this way only contain single blobs.
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Client design
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