From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:07:00 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtyxgh6yj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git list , "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 30 23:07:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3zcw-0007wc-AX for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:07:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757538AbZJ3WHI (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757535AbZJ3WHI (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:08 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:50046 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757532AbZJ3WHG (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:06 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A1F8BEE4; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:09 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=EFu3Rn89Hg9BbpmMPITlmisTztg=; b=WUPPjE 4yZlSNm5I5gAcAq+/sV7NQ7TnP8bNQB0fq26qeL5pgoxhADIDBMBujwTfmRVdQjB /1nA4eOYqYSseMQy3xxTbdRVwNEFVjXx1bwg7S/jO6WorlTQr4GAbWKGTQ6QhaOw M44m1NXPpITz8OLLGx1rdXwOp0o4YXbEX3DMU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=UIOI6aCXG+NBLT3kNRWVKWIgjqOyvegq xL/GaspYiPT2nP2INmYzlLvGNhm1bLNkJMh/OfmsFs3sjw/dPqYEg7YtDAJ69MJ5 eGAnY821ru+6i+5F3VxMD9pzSeJ5mT8uomQth1Bzobt9wRvzNWIgmzJ1SCRCHtw/ TwjOOPH2hqE= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DEF8BEE0; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3113F8BEDE; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:07:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Scott Chacon's message of "Thu\, 29 Oct 2009 10\:35\:22 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8FCAA03C-C5A0-11DE-9DEB-A67CBBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Scott Chacon writes: > The technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both sparse and > incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and send-pack/ > receive-pack protocols much more fully. Thanks for starting this. There were a few little things I noticed (e.g. SHA when it should say SHA-1 or "object name") but we can fix them up in-tree.