From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, jrnieder@gmail.com, sbeller@google.com,
jonathantanmy@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] transitioning to protocol v2
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:48:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpobjsflp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170825172901.kvquxafudhelxqq3@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:29:02 -0700")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> But what if we instead think of it not as "protocol v2" but as "can I
> give the server some hints that it may end up ignoring", then we end up
> with something more like:
>
> C: please run upload-pack (btw, I'm only interested in refs/heads/foo)
> S: advertisement + caps (hopefully limited to foo, but client is prepared to receive all)
> ... etc, as before ...
Nice. The caps that come back can tell us between the cases where
they only had refs/heads/foo and nothing else, or if they limited
their output to it among many others we told them to ignore, so
there is no ambiguity.
> Or alternatively, I guess make this optional to start with, and
> let early adopters turn it on and complain to their server vendors
> for a while before flipping the default to on.
That sounds like a safe transition plan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-25 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-24 22:53 [RFC 0/7] transitioning to protocol v2 Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 1/7] pkt-line: add packet_write function Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 2/7] pkt-line: add strbuf_packet_read Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 3/7] protocol: tell server that the client understands v2 Brandon Williams
2017-08-25 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-25 18:53 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-25 18:55 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 4/7] t: fix ssh tests to cope with using '-o SendEnv=GIT_PROTOCOL' Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 5/7] http: send Git-Protocol-Version header Brandon Williams
2017-08-30 10:55 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 6/7] transport: teach client to recognize v2 server response Brandon Williams
2017-08-24 22:53 ` [RFC 7/7] upload-pack: ack version 2 Brandon Williams
2017-09-01 22:02 ` Bryan Turner
2017-09-01 23:20 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-25 1:19 ` [RFC 0/7] transitioning to protocol v2 Junio C Hamano
2017-08-25 17:07 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-25 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-25 17:36 ` Jeff King
2017-08-25 17:29 ` Jeff King
2017-08-25 17:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-08-25 17:41 ` Jeff King
2017-08-25 18:50 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-29 20:08 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-29 21:10 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-30 3:06 ` Jeff King
2017-08-30 13:30 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-30 16:54 ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-25 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-08-30 20:38 ` Bryan Turner
2017-08-30 21:12 ` Brandon Williams
2017-09-01 23:06 ` Bryan Turner
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