On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:40:37PM -0400, JP Sugarbroad wrote: > > I just fear that it is a wrong approach to solve the real issue and > > instead make it worse by relieving the pressure from the project and > > hosting site to configure their repository to support their users > > properly. > > Unfortunately I don't see the likes of github or bitbucket adding > allow-reachable-sha1-in-want any time soon, as it is an expensive > operation server-side. I don't think it's _too_ bad, at least compared to some of the nastier things one can convince the server side of a git fetch to do. It at least looks at just the commits; the bad cases usually involve traversing the whole object graph. It's also something that's easily sped up with reachability bitmaps. But I haven't done any real analysis on the kind of load it would cause. So no promises, but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility for GitHub to enable, if it's something that would be useful to a lot of people. I can't speak for Bitbucket. :) -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