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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.