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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH 00/14] Protocol v2 patches
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 09:23:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfut6150a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464130008.24478.134.camel@twopensource.com> (David Turner's message of "Tue, 24 May 2016 18:46:48 -0400")

David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:

> I was looking at this again today, and noticed that it doesn't really
> address the HTTP case.
>
> The central problem is that protocol v2 goes like this:
> server: I have capabilities w,x,y, and z
> client: I want capabilities x and z.
>
> But HTTP goes like this:
> client: [request]
> server: [response]

I wonder if that can be solved by speculative request?

Let the connection initiator say "If you can do x and z, please do
so", and allow the responder to say either "OK, I can do x and z; by
the way the full capabilites I support are w, x, y and z", or
"Sorry, can't do that; I have capabilities w, x, and y".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-29 23:34 [WIP PATCH 00/14] Protocol v2 patches Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 01/14] upload-pack: make client capability parsing code a separate function Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 02/14] upload-pack.c: Refactor capability advertising Stefan Beller
2016-04-30  1:04   ` David Turner
2016-05-04 20:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 03/14] upload-pack-2: Implement the version 2 of upload-pack Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 17:43   ` David Turner
2016-05-02 17:51     ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 18:56       ` David Turner
2016-05-03  0:31         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-04 20:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 04/14] connect: rewrite feature parsing to work on string_list Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 18:18   ` David Turner
2016-05-02 18:46     ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-04 20:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-17 22:23     ` David Turner
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 05/14] transport: add infrastructure to support a protocol version number Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 06/14] remote.h: add get_remote_capabilities, request_capabilities Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 18:57   ` David Turner
2016-05-03  5:33     ` Jeff King
2016-05-03 21:21       ` David Turner
2016-05-04 16:44         ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 07/14] fetch-pack: move capability selection out of do_fetch_pack Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 08/14] fetch-pack: factor out get_selected_capabilities_list Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 19:09   ` David Turner
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 09/14] fetch-pack: Add negotiate_capabilities Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 10/14] do_fetch_pack: select capabilities for transport version 1 only Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 11/14] builtin/fetch-pack: add argument for transport version Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 12/14] Add test for fetch-pack Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 19:45   ` David Turner
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 13/14] WIP add test for git pull Stefan Beller
2016-04-29 23:34 ` [PATCH 14/14] WIP test git fetch Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 20:41 ` [WIP PATCH 00/14] Protocol v2 patches David Turner
2016-05-02 20:43   ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-24 22:46 ` David Turner
2016-05-24 23:03   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-25 16:45     ` David Turner
2016-05-25 16:23   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-25 19:31     ` David Turner
2016-05-25 21:29   ` Jeff King

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