On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > If the client is limited to setting a few flags, then something like > http can get away with: > > GET > foo.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack&advertise-symrefs&refspec=refs/heads/* > > And it does not need to worry about upload-pack2 at all. Either the > server recognizes and acts on them, or it ignores them. > > But given that we do not have such a magic out-of-band method for > passing values over ssh and git, maybe it is not worth worrying about.
git could go the same if we lift the restriction in 73bb33a (daemon: Strictly parse the "extra arg" part of the command - 2009-06-04). It's been five years. Old daemons hopefully have all died out by now. For ssh, I suppose upload-pack and receive-pack can take an extra argument like "advertise-symrefs&refspec=refs/heads/*" (daemon would use it too to pass the advertiment to upload-pack and receive-pack). That would make all three not need to change the underlying protocol for capability advertisement. Old git-daemon, upload-pack and receive-pack will fail hard on the new advertisement though, unlike http. But that's no worse than upload-pack2. > Http can move to upload-pack2 along with the rest. Or maybe http may lead the rest to another way. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
