[MERGE] FileCollection

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:35 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> And I'm surprised to see you say it makes sense to remove support for 
>> unlistable transports, e.g. http.
> 
> In the long term, if we want lock-free repositories, we will have to do
> something like that because of the race conditions existing in managing
> a list like this patch implements.

I think that it's a great feature that branches can be read over plain
http, and part of my motivation for suggesting a pack-like at the London
sprint was to make dumb transports almost as good as smart ones for pull.

I think lock-free repos are compelling for large projects that run their
own servers.  I think http support is compelling for small projects that
don't run their own servers.

So maybe we can let people choose between http support and lock-free
repos as a format option?

> The reason for this class is to **avoid** removing support support for
> unlistable transports as a precondition of pack based repositories.

That would be tragic, since pack-based formats will make plain http much
better.

Aaron
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