Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/6] fetch: pass refspec to http server

2016-04-19 Thread David Turner
On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 22:33 -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:19 PM, David Turner < > dtur...@twopensource.com> wrote: > > When fetching over http, send the requested refspec to the server. > > The server will then only send refs matching that refspec. It is > > permitted

Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/6] fetch: pass refspec to http server

2016-04-16 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:19 PM, David Turner wrote: > When fetching over http, send the requested refspec to the server. > The server will then only send refs matching that refspec. It is > permitted for old servers to ignore that parameter, and the client > will

[PATCH/RFC 5/6] fetch: pass refspec to http server

2016-04-15 Thread David Turner
When fetching over http, send the requested refspec to the server. The server will then only send refs matching that refspec. It is permitted for old servers to ignore that parameter, and the client will automatically handle this. When the server has many refs, and the client only wants a few,