reduce size of `ipfs.add` bundle and number of RPC requests.

[slothbag]

It appears the first request is to add the content, which we get a hash value returned. But then it makes two more requests to get the data and links back.

Is there are a way to disable the last 2 requests? I only need the hash.

Cheers

[daviddias]

@slothbag I believe it only issues 2 requests, correct?

We could skip the second one if this ipfs/kubo#4008 comes to happen.

Now that #561 is happening, we will see a ton of bundle size reduction for ipfs-api/add if we can avoid that extra RTT

[daviddias]

Now that ipfs/kubo#4082 has been merged and released, we can finish this up. (and also that ipfsd-ctl was updated)

Update: Actually, This -- ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl#165 -- needs to happen before I can release a new version of ipfsd-ctl and test latest go-ipfs here with confidence :)

[daviddias]

Now that the Dragon is gone (once released) ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl#165 (comment) I'll be able to PR for this issue in this issue :)

[daviddias]

Seems that I was wrong, the feature required in go-ipfs is only going to be released in 0.4.11. Nevertheless, I went ahead and developed the PR for it once it gets released -> #595

Closing this one, let's track on the PR itself #595