On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:43:11PM -0400, David Turner wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 19:22 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > You can find previous discussion on the list, but I think the options > > basically are: > > > > 1. Something like v2, where the client gets a chance to speak > > before > > the advertisement. > > > > 2. Some out-of-band way of getting values from the client to the > > server (so maybe extra command-line arguments for git-over-ssh, > > and > > maybe shoving something after the "\0" for git-daemon, and of > > course extra parameters for HTTP). > > > > 3. The client saying "stop spewing refs at me, I want to give you a > > ref filter" asynchronously, and accepting a little spew at the > > beginning of each conversation. That obviously only works for > > the > > full-duplex transports, so you'd probably fall back to (2) for > > http. > > OK, so (2) seems like what I'm doing -- it just happens that I only > implemented it for one protocol. Right. And I don't mind that approach _if_ we can figure out a way to do it for all protocols. But I think there are some complications with the other ones, which means that HTTP will have the ability to grow features the other protocols do not. -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