On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:53:15AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I added the config item as remote.foo.smarthttp. You could also allow > > "http.$url.smart" (and just "http.smart", for that matter), which could > > be more flexible if you have multiple remotes pointing to the same > > broken server. > > What would the user experience be when we introduce "even smarter" > http server protocol extension? Will we add remote.foo.starterhttp? I would hope that it would actually be negotiated reliably at the protocol level so we do not have to deal with this mess again. > Perhaps > > remote.$name.httpvariants = [smart] [dumb] > > to allow users to say "smart only", "dumb only", or "smart and/or > dumb" might be more code but less burden on the users. I don't mind that format if we are going that direction, but is there anybody who actually wants to say "smart only?" -Peff -- 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