On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 1:48 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > > > While having a quarantine directory would help with the case where you > > have differing end user behaviour depending on the protocol, it of > > course wouldn't help with the implied performance hit when using the > > fallback logic. > > > > So maybe not having the fallback is the best solution after all, and > > when users have a good use case for why they need it we could implement > > it in a future iteration. > > And I would strongly suspect that we won't have to implement any > fallback---hopefully folks upgrade their server side to be capable > of whatever capability is needed fast enough ;-). > > Thanks. Thank you, sir, and also Patrick and Christian, for helping clarify this for me. That makes sense. I will remove the "fetch and inspect" approach in the next series.