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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol.mdwn b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol.mdwn index 6fe09ff7c..01ffe7fd4 100644 --- a/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol.mdwn @@ -101,12 +101,14 @@ The following requests *must* all be supported by the special remote. Tells the special remote it's time to prepare itself to be used. Only INITREMOTE can come before this. * `TRANSFER STORE|RETRIEVE Key File` - Requests the transfer of a key. For Send, the File is the file to upload; - for Receive the File is where to store the download. + Requests the transfer of a key. For STORE, the File is the file to upload; + for RETRIEVE the File is where to store the download. Note that the File should not influence the filename used on the remote. The filename will not contain any whitespace. + Note that it's important that, while a Key is being stored, CHECKPRESENT + not indicate it's present until all the data has been transferred. Multiple transfers might be requested by git-annex, but it's fine for the - program to serialize them and only do one at a time. + program to serialize them and only do one at a time. * `CHECKPRESENT Key` Requests the remote check if a key is present in it. * `REMOVE Key` @@ -286,7 +288,6 @@ start a new process the next time it needs to use a remote. the remote. However, \n and probably \0 need to be escaped somehow in the file data, which adds complication. * uuid discovery during INITREMOTE. -* Support for splitting files into chunks. * Support for getting and setting the list of urls that can be associated with a key. * Hook into webapp. Needs a way to provide some kind of prompt to the user |