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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] {fetch,upload}-pack: allow --depth=0 for
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=
=BB=8Dc Duy wrote:

> Users can do --depth=3D2147483648 for infinite depth now. It just loo=
ks
> ugly. So make "0" special (i.e. infinite depth) at plumbing/protocol
> level.

What happens if I connect to an older server? Shouldn't "I understand
depth=3D0 is infinite" be a server capability, and we hack around it by
sending depth=3D2^32-1 when we have a modern client but an older server=
?

-Peff