Re: Some issues when trying to set up a shallow git mirror server

> Richard Maw <richard.maw@codethink.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 1.  Before any "want" requests.
> >
> >     This would also let you extend ls-remote to let it display ancestry.
> >
> >     This is complicated by the fact that normally the client responds
> >     with which features it supports in the first "want",
> >     so the sender would have to support "check-ff N O <FEATURES>"
> >     if it advertised "ancestry-check".
> 
> Yes, that sounds like a good thing.  Actually, ls-remote is a
> degenerated case of fetch that sends 0 "want" requests, so the above
> may be identical to what I suggested in the message you are
> responding to.