From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:53:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] {fetch,upload}-pack: allow --depth=0 for infinite depth
Message-ID: <20100824135341.GA6457@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1282565304-3122-3-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> Users can do --depth=2147483648 for infinite depth now. It just looks
> ugly. So make "0" special (i.e. infinite depth) at plumbing/protocol
> level.

What happens if I connect to an older server? Shouldn't "I understand
depth=0 is infinite" be a server capability, and we hack around it by
sending depth=2^32-1 when we have a modern client but an older server?

-Peff