Doing this would allow a user to request repos as needed. Using a bloom filter as a repo header.

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Bloomfilters intentionally can have false positives but no false negatives. They're great for searching over very large datasets as a quick and cheap way to drop lots of data from more expensive search operations.

We use a deterministic checksum for this so you know what you're getting without ambiguity.

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