On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:07:09AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > As this does not affect local use of "git archive", "requested by > > refnames" may need to be clarified further. Perhaps "remote > > archives can be requested only for published refnames" or something. > > I was hoping to be vague. If we really want to get into specifics, we > should probably document the current rules (refnames, and sub-trees of > refnames). It might be a good thing to document that anyway, though. And > by doing so, it would become obvious why one would want to set this > option. I'll see what I can come up with. Here's a series to handle this; I think the end result is much nicer. I ended up calling the option "uploadarchive.allowUnreachable". By moving it there instead of under "archive", it is more clear that this is about the _serving_ end of the remote connection, and the word "remote" becomes redundant. [1/2]: docs: clarify remote restrictions for git-upload-archive [2/2]: add uploadarchive.allowUnreachable option -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