From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:19:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603141947.GD3355@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906031429.28967.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > Should we describe here, or in appendix, or in sidenote, or
> > in a footnote, all currently supported client capabilities
> > and server capabilities?
>
> * include-tag
>
> What does it mean? Is it about sending tags if we are sending objects
> they point to,
Yes, this.
> or is it about sending all tags?
No, not this.
If we pack an object to the client, and a tag points exactly at
that object, we pack the tag too. In general this allows a client
to get all new tags when it fetches a branch, in a single network
connection.
> P.S. Is hexdigit length case sensitive i.e. 0-9a-f, or is it not
> case sensitive i.e. 0-9a-fA-F?
Git parses both a-f/A-F, but prefers to create a-f.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 21:29 Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol Jakub Narebski
2009-05-12 23:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14 8:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 14:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14 15:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-15 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 16:51 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-05-14 18:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-14 20:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 13:55 ` Scott Chacon
2009-05-14 14:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14 15:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-15 0:58 ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-05-15 19:05 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-06-02 21:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-02 23:27 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 0:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 1:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 2:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03 2:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 9:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 15:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 15:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 15:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 16:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 16:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 20:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 20:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 22:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 22:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03 22:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04 7:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-04 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-06 16:33 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-06 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-06 17:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 21:38 ` Tony Finch
2009-06-03 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03 19:05 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-06-03 2:18 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-06-03 10:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 20:56 ` Tony Finch
2009-06-03 21:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 21:53 ` Tony Finch
2009-06-04 8:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04 11:41 ` Tony Finch
2009-06-04 18:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 12:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-06-04 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04 21:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05 0:45 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05 7:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-05 8:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-06 21:38 ` Comments pack protocol description in "Git Community Book" (second round) Jakub Narebski
2009-06-06 21:58 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-07 8:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-07 20:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-07 20:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-13 9:30 ` Comments pack protocol description in "RFC for the Git Packfile Protocol" (long) Jakub Narebski
2009-06-07 20:06 ` Comments pack protocol description in "Git Community Book" (second round) Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-09 9:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-09 14:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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