From: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a 'version' command to the server
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:25:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48662DB0.3010608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080628114337.GA3489@steel.home>
Alex Riesen wrote:
> And exactly how are the incompatibility problems avoided? By denying
> the service if the versions don't match?
No, by talking to older servers in a way they understand it. So for
instance it would call "git-upload-pack" instead of "git upload-pack".
(See also the SSH protocol with two versions, and I think Subversion's
svnserve also somehow identifies its own capabilities and/or version.)
-- Lea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-28 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 22:08 git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 22:14 ` git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 23:07 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org) Lea Wiemann
2008-06-27 23:15 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 23:19 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-28 11:43 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server (was: git@vger.kernel.org) Alex Riesen
2008-06-28 12:25 ` Lea Wiemann [this message]
2008-06-29 4:08 ` Adding a 'version' command to the server Shawn O. Pearce
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