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Re: git-upload-pack stream

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 22, 2012, 18:12 UTC
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<20120522181240.GA20305@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 06:35:47PM +0200, Tajti Ákos wrote:
> when pushing through http git-http-backend gets a stream of object
> when sending the git-upload-packl command. This stream starts with
> two object ids and a branch name. Is there a specification about how
> this streem exactly looks like?

Have you looked at what's in Documentation/technical in the git.git repository? Specifically, protocol-common.txt and pack-protocol.txt describe what happens over the regular protocol. The http version of the protocol just splits that into chunks, but the output that upload-pack produces is the same.

You mentioned "pushing", though, which does not involve git-upload-pack at all. Did you mean git-receive-pack? From your description, I guess maybe you mean the "command-list" lines sent by send-pack to receive-pack? They are defined pack-protocol.txt. See the subsection "Reference Update Request and Packfile Transfer" under "Pushing Data to a Server".

-Peff
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