Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com> writes:

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> Does the pack index file contain enough information to enable a client
> to send http byte range requests to grab individual objects from a pack?
> It does seem to store object offsets...

Yes, it is certainly doable; there is enough information.  I am
not sure if it is worth the complexity, though.

Many objects are stored delitified, so your byte range requests
would return delta and base object name.  After you read what
was returned and find out the base object name, you would need
to get it, which can be another delta against its base object.
This would make tangling a delta chain would become a serialized
sequence of requests.

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