Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > But what if we instead think of it not as "protocol v2" but as "can I > give the server some hints that it may end up ignoring", then we end up > with something more like: > > C: please run upload-pack (btw, I'm only interested in refs/heads/foo) > S: advertisement + caps (hopefully limited to foo, but client is prepared to receive all) > ... etc, as before ... Nice. The caps that come back can tell us between the cases where they only had refs/heads/foo and nothing else, or if they limited their output to it among many others we told them to ignore, so there is no ambiguity. > Or alternatively, I guess make this optional to start with, and > let early adopters turn it on and complain to their server vendors > for a while before flipping the default to on. That sounds like a safe transition plan.
