Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > >> Users can do --depth=2147483648 for infinite depth now. It just looks >> ugly. So make "0" special (i.e. infinite depth) at plumbing/protocol >> level. > > What happens if I connect to an older server? Shouldn't "I understand > depth=0 is infinite" be a server capability, and we hack around it by > sending depth=2^32-1 when we have a modern client but an older server? Good point. Do we also need to find out how wide an int is on the other end in that case? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html