From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:28:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git push": tellme-more protocol extension
Message-ID: <20080321042821.GA5453@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy78cu2kt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:24:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> So a potential improvement might be to ask for "tellme-more" only if we do
> not know any of the refs the receiver showed us; my patch does it if there
> is at least one unknown instead.

You can still get cases where doing this is more expensive than your
patch, because A..B is very small but shared_tag..A is very large. I'm
not sure which is more likely in practice.

-Peff