On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:53:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> Has there been any work on extending the protocol so that the client > >> tells the server what refs it's interested in? > > > > I don't think so. It would be hard to do in a backwards-compatible way, > > because the advertisement is the first thing the server says, before it > > has negotiated any capabilities with the client at all. > > That is being discussed but hasn't surfaced on the list. Out of curiosity, how are you thinking about triggering such a new behavior in a backwards-compatible way? Invoke git-upload-pack2, and fall back to reconnecting to start git-upload-pack if it fails? -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