Re: [PATCH] Fixup no-progress for fetch & clone

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>> 
>>> How does that solve the issue with servers (currently all of them) that 
>>> don't know about the new sideband?
>> 
>> I actually happen to consider that a non problem.
>> 
>> It is true that you can only prepare the client and server side
>> by 1.5.1, and new clients talking to 1.5.0 or older servers
>> would not be able to squelch the noise.  But that is _not_ a new
>> problem anyway, and given time the server side will eventually
>> be updated to 1.5.1 or later.  If anything else, it would give
>> incentive to people to upgrade their servers to 1.5.1 ;-)
> 
> Well... for such a special case feature I doubt this might be such a 
> great insentive.  And since locally filtering on '\r' is so simple I 
> wonder what the complexity of the alternative solution really buys us.

Slighly less bandwidth used (we don't send progress report)?

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Jakub Narebski
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