An aside: On 27/10/2021 19:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I don't think you can say "this bundle has no blobs". The > "prerequisites" hard map to the same thing you could put on a > "want/have" line during PACK negotiation. > > I think we could/should fix that, i.e. we can > bump the bundle format > version and have it encode some extended prerequisites/filter/shallow > etc information. If the format is bumped, could we also include the HEAD=<particular-branch> info within that format. The `guess the HEAD` algorithm isn't ideal and shows up in user questions every now and again. > You'd then have a 1=1 match between the features of > git-upload-pack and what you can transfer via the bundle side-channel. -- Philip