Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > RTT more than necessary. We could just determine if the server supports > the attributes we want by using capabilities (without needing to send > the request to check). Hmph. capabilities may cut in both ways, though. Those clients that are not interested in object-info at all (which are the majority of case where people clone, fetch or ls-remote), they do not even need to know what kind of object attributes the object-info command is prepared to report, and they would appreciate not having to spend any extra byte in the capability-advertisement. Of course, for object-info clients, having it upfront does make things simpler. So...
