On Tue, Sep 14 2021, Jeff King wrote: > -static int is_valid_capability(const char *key) > +static int receive_client_capability(const char *key) > { > const char *value; > const struct protocol_capability *c = get_capability(key, &value); > > - return c && c->advertise(the_repository, NULL); > + if (!c || !c->advertise(the_repository, NULL)) > + return 0; > + > + if (c->receive) > + c->receive(the_repository, value); > + return 1; > } > I haven't actually run this yet (and need to zZzZ soon), but AFAICT at the end of this series you leave the existing advertise semantics of advertise() be (which is fine). I have this unsubmitted patch locally which you may or may not want to work into this. I considered splitting up the advertise() method as well, i.e. we could have a new "is_advertised" boolean callback, and then a "capability_string" or whatever. "server-option" and "object-info" never add anything, so they could leave that as NULL. But it's probably not worth it, just food for thought... -- >8 -- serve: document that "advertise" is called in two modes If we're being called with a non-NULL argument we're sending out the advertisement line, but if it's NULL we're actually in the middle of a request. So you can use the check for NULL to emit your own "die" on "return 0", like "wtf, I said I don't support command xyz, why are you calling it?", as opposed to the default "invalid command '%s'". Maybe nobody cares, and we can't assume that we're going from an advertisement to a command for the same request anyway (can we?). I.e. are we serving multiple clients? Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- serve.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/serve.c b/serve.c index aa8209f147e..b187ce26911 100644 --- a/serve.c +++ b/serve.c @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ struct protocol_capability { * Optionally a value can be specified by adding it to 'value'. * If a value is added to 'value', the server will advertise this * capability as "<name>=<value>" instead of "<name>". + * + * When called with a NULL value we're past the advertisement + * itself, and are checking during a request whether we + * support this command. This can be checked and used used to + * e.g. emit a die("we support this, but don't have it + * enabled!") error. */ int (*advertise)(struct repository *r, struct strbuf *value); -- 2.33.0.1013.ge8323766266