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From: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:05:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0heSraHteU1fG7Eu_S7aE6r60vuVUFC=DnxdZNgpvHk4G0MQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73e1ce78-a461-1204-99d5-a588f8e65fc9@gmail.com>

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 14:31, Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/2020 8:21 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:
> >
> >  If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may
> > -send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not
> > -advertised by upload-pack.
> > +send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not
> > +advertised by upload-pack. (Note that the name of the capability
> > +contains "sha1", but that it's more general than that: in SHA-1
> > +repositories, the "want" lines provide SHA-1 values, but in SHA-256
> > +repositories, they provide SHA-256 values.)
> >
> >  allow-reachable-sha1-in-want
> >  ----------------------------
> >
> >  If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may
> > -send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not
> > -advertised by upload-pack.
> > +send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not
> > +advertised by upload-pack. (Same remark about "sha1" as above.)
>
> This "as above" is brittle to future changes.

Fair enough. :-) I actually thought this might be *less* brittle, since
we wouldn't need to do any additional changes twice.

> I think it
> could be improved with
>
>         (As in "allow-tip-sha1-in-want", the "sha1" in this capability
>         refers to object names, not the hash algorithm chosen for the
>         repository.)
>
> Or, just repeat the same note again.

These two paragraphs are identical before this patch, so it might make
sense not to change that property. Thanks.


Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-13 22:48 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation updates for SHA-256 brian m. carlson
2020-08-13 22:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] docs: document SHA-256 pack and indices brian m. carlson
2020-08-14  2:26   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-13 22:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] docs: fix step in transition plan brian m. carlson
2020-08-14 12:21   ` Martin Ågren
2020-08-14  2:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] Documentation updates for SHA-256 Derrick Stolee
2020-08-14  4:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 20:20     ` brian m. carlson
2020-08-14 20:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 0/5] more SHA-256 documentation Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:21   ` [PATCH 1/5] http-protocol.txt: document SHA-256 "want"/"have" format Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 17:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 20:23       ` brian m. carlson
2020-08-14 20:32         ` Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 20:39         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 20:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 12:21   ` [PATCH 2/5] index-format.txt: document SHA-256 index format Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:28     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-14 14:05       ` Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:21   ` [PATCH 3/5] protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256 Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:31     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-14 14:05       ` Martin Ågren [this message]
2020-08-14 17:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 20:35       ` Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 20:43         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 12:21   ` [PATCH 4/5] shallow.txt: document SHA-256 shallow format Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:21   ` [PATCH 5/5] commit-graph-format.txt: fix "Hash Version" description Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 12:37     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-14 14:10       ` Martin Ågren
2020-08-14 20:28   ` [PATCH 0/5] more SHA-256 documentation brian m. carlson
2020-08-15 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Martin Ågren
2020-08-15 16:05     ` [PATCH v2 1/4] http-protocol.txt: document SHA-256 "want"/"have" format Martin Ågren
2020-08-15 16:06     ` [PATCH v2 2/4] index-format.txt: document SHA-256 index format Martin Ågren
2020-08-15 16:06     ` [PATCH v2 3/4] protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256 Martin Ågren
2020-08-15 16:06     ` [PATCH v2 4/4] shallow.txt: document SHA-256 shallow format Martin Ågren

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