Richard Maw <richard.maw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1. Before any "want" requests. > > This would also let you extend ls-remote to let it display ancestry. > > This is complicated by the fact that normally the client responds > with which features it supports in the first "want", > so the sender would have to support "check-ff N O <FEATURES>" > if it advertised "ancestry-check". Yes, that sounds like a good thing. Actually, ls-remote is a degenerated case of fetch that sends 0 "want" requests, so the above may be identical to what I suggested in the message you are responding to. > 2. After the pack is transferred. I do not think the protocol is structured to allow you to do this easily. The reading side is expected to read thru til the end of the stream, not stopping at the end of the packdata, IIRC. -- 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