From: Jonathan Tan Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:03:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] ref-in-want Message-ID: <20180625230310.210182-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20180625185332.164142-1-bmwill@google.com> > Changes in v4 are fairly minor. There are a few documentation changes, > commit message updates, as well as a few small style tweaks based on > reviewer comments. Patches 4 and 7, which I have commented on previously, look good. As for patch 2, it still has a missing period in the documentation that I remarked upon in [1], but I'm not too worried about that. Having said that, Jonathan Nieder suggested [2]: > Stefan mentioned that the spec says > > * The server MUST NOT send any refs which were not requested > using 'want-ref' lines. > > Can client enforce that? If not, can the spec say SHOULD NOT for the > server and add a MUST describing appropriate client behavior? I noticed that you did use "SHOULD NOT" instead of "MUST NOT" - in this case, you should probably also follow the second part about appropriate client behavior - it's probably best to document and implement that we ignore all unwanted refs. But considering this situation, though, I think it's better to just put "MUST NOT" and have the client enforce this. One more thing - I think that the fetch part needs to be tested more. In particular, test cases similar to that of the upload-pack tests (multiple ref names, ref name + exact SHA-1), and in addition, handling of wildcards (for example, a wildcard that expands to nothing and a wildcard that expands to 2 refs). [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180625174056.53053-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/ [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180622230119.GL12013@aiede.svl.corp.google.com/