Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > Why not just parse the pack header in receive-pack / fetch-pack, and > decide on the first-hand information? Sure the pack header is then > gone, but then the only thing that is needed is an extra flag to both > unpack-objects and index-pack to tell them that we've already parsed the > pack header and that the pack version is x and the number of objects is > y. Simply something like --pack_header=x,y. No protocol extension > needed, no extra rev-list, no reliance on the remote server providing > the needed info. I like it. Because that approach assumes recieve-pack and unpack-objects and index-pack are from the same vintage (otherwise your receive-pack would need to have a way to see if unpack-objects and index-pack would grok --pack_header argument), we could even get away without passing the pack version if we wanted to. - 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