From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:58:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation
Message-ID: <20091103005815.GW10505@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyxctpf8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >> Shouldn't we say "the client MUST NOT make reference update request if
> >> everything is up to date" which would imply that in practice there is no
> >> reason to send an empty pack data?

Creating new branch quirk aside, I do agree with this.  Clients
shouldn't send no-op updates if it knows in advance the update is
a no-op.

-- 
Shawn.