Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... I think there's also been discussion of a > protocol extension to transmit the information, although I don't know > where that ended up. You can find them in the list of threads posted nearby. The first round's protocol extension was not quite backward compatible but in a benign way, in that it did not break anything but induced a harmless warning from older ls-remote. The second round did not have such flaw but it got a "Yuck". From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:44:15 -0500 Message-ID: <20081201174414.GA22185@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6 (v2)] upload-pack: send the HEAD information I somehow feel that the "Yuck" was addressed not to the patches but to the problem the patch needs to address. We could resurrect it if somebody is interested. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html