From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:43:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091102154350.GS10505@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0911011518q15a8267bn642e6937be8c9ab1@mail.gmail.com>
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've incorporated the comments from Shawn (except for the 'annotated
> tag' comment
> in the 'include-tag' section of the capabilities doc, which I didn't
> understand).
...
> +include-tag
> +-----------
> +
> +The 'include-tag' capability is about sending tags if we are sending
> +objects they point to. 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.
There are two types of tags, annotated and lightweight, right?
To avoid confusion here we should make it clear we only send
annotated tag objects when this feature is enabled. The protocol
doesn't have provisions to send SHA-1 to ref mapping inside of a
pack stream, so lightweight tags cannot be sent.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-01 23:18 [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation Scott Chacon
2009-11-02 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-02 15:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-02 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-02 15:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-11-02 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-02 23:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-03 0:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-03 0:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-03 22:05 ` Scott Chacon
2009-11-04 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 0:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-04 1:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 1:18 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-04 1:48 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-04 5:58 Scott Chacon
2009-11-04 6:36 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-05 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-29 17:35 Scott Chacon
2009-10-30 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-31 2:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-31 20:12 ` Johannes Sixt
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