Re: [PATCH/RFC 4/6] transport: add refspec list parameters to functions
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David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
- Date
- Apr 19, 2016, 23:43 UTC
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On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 19:22 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> You can find previous discussion on the list, but I think the options > basically are: > > 1. Something like v2, where the client gets a chance to speak > before > the advertisement. > > 2. Some out-of-band way of getting values from the client to the > server (so maybe extra command-line arguments for git-over-ssh, > and > maybe shoving something after the "\0" for git-daemon, and of > course extra parameters for HTTP). > > 3. The client saying "stop spewing refs at me, I want to give you a > ref filter" asynchronously, and accepting a little spew at the > beginning of each conversation. That obviously only works for > the > full-duplex transports, so you'd probably fall back to (2) for > http.
OK, so (2) seems like what I'm doing -- it just happens that I only implemented it for one protocol.