Document that in SHA-1 repositories, we use SHA-1 for "want"s and "have"s, and in SHA-256 repositories, we use SHA-256. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt index 51a79e63de..507f28f9b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt @@ -401,8 +401,9 @@ at all in the request stream: The stream is terminated by a pkt-line flush (`0000`). A single "want" or "have" command MUST have one hex formatted -SHA-1 as its value. Multiple SHA-1s MUST be sent by sending -multiple commands. +object name as its value. Multiple object names MUST be sent by sending +multiple commands. (An object name is a SHA-1 hash in a SHA-1 repo +and a SHA-256 hash in a SHA-256 repo.) The `have` list is created by popping the first 32 commits from `c_pending`. Less can be supplied if `c_pending` empties. -- 2.28.0.277.g9b3c35fffd
