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Re: [PATCH] pack-protocol: mention and point to docs for protocol v2

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2018, 22:19 UTC
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Brandon Williams wrote:
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> If so I suggest we move away from the term "pack" protocol.  Mostly
> because maybe at some future date we don't only want to communicate to
> transfer packs.  So at the risk of bikeshedding (and because naming is
> hard) I think we should begin talking about the over the wire protocol
> as just that, the "wire protocol" or if we need to be more explicit the
> "git wire protocol". Thoughts?
Sounds fine to me.

<bikeshed>You can call it Documentation/technical/git-protocol.txt, since from the context it's clear that this is going over the wire.</bikeshed>

The main point of what Junio said is that it means the docs should treat "git upload-archive" instead same way as "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack", instead of artifically separating the archive file-oriented and the pack-oriented parts of the protocol.

Thanks, Jonathan

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  1. pack-protocol: mention and point to docs for protocol v2Brandon Williams, Jul 23, 2018
  2. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2018
  3. Brandon WilliamsJul 24, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2018
  5. Brandon WilliamsJul 24, 2018
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