Peff sent a review (which I don't see in lore.kernel.org/git, but I do see it in my inbox); here's v8 in response to that. As you can see from the range-diff, there are just minor changes to v7 (wording in documentation and a memory leak fix). Jonathan Tan (3): ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs connect, transport: encapsulate arg in struct clone: respect remote unborn HEAD Documentation/config.txt | 2 + Documentation/config/init.txt | 2 +- Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt | 9 +++ Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt | 11 +++- builtin/clone.c | 34 +++++++++--- builtin/fetch-pack.c | 3 +- builtin/fetch.c | 18 +++--- builtin/ls-remote.c | 9 +-- connect.c | 32 ++++++++++- ls-refs.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- ls-refs.h | 1 + remote.h | 4 +- serve.c | 2 +- t/t5606-clone-options.sh | 8 ++- t/t5701-git-serve.sh | 2 +- t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh | 25 +++++++++ transport-helper.c | 5 +- transport-internal.h | 10 +--- transport.c | 23 ++++---- transport.h | 29 +++++++--- 20 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt Range-diff against v7: 1: 2d35075369 ! 1: 8b0f55b5e4 ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs @@ Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt (new) + protocol v2 capability advertisement. "allow" is the same as + "advertise" except that the server will not advertise support for this + feature; this is useful for load-balanced servers that cannot be -+ updated automatically (for example), since the administrator could ++ updated atomically (for example), since the administrator could + configure "allow", then after a delay, configure "advertise". ## Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt ## @@ ls-refs.c + +static void ensure_config_read(void) +{ -+ char *str = NULL; ++ const char *str = NULL; + + if (config_read) + return; + -+ if (repo_config_get_string(the_repository, "lsrefs.unborn", &str)) { ++ if (repo_config_get_string_tmp(the_repository, "lsrefs.unborn", &str)) { + /* + * If there is no such config, advertise and allow it by + * default. 2: d4ed13d02e = 2: f09bd56d5f connect, transport: encapsulate arg in struct 3: a3e5a0a7c5 = 3: a5495a42f1 clone: respect remote unborn HEAD -- 2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog