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Re: [PATCH] protocol-capabilities.txt: document symref

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 12, 2019, 00:05 UTC
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<20190212000530.GC13301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<4ffb11ff776166944673ba3bdb96a9d20eb14df7.1549929088.git.steadmon@google.com>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:52:24PM -0800, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> In 7171d8c15f ("upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as
> capability"), we added a symref capability to the pack protocol, but it
> was never documented. Adapt the patch notes from that commit and add
> them to the capabilities documentation.

Good catch, and your explanation (especially the SHOULD/MAY bits) looks good.

I think this is obsoleted by v2, which will send symref info along with each ref. I don't know if it's worth mentioning that here (the v2 docs discuss it, but I don't know if this capabilities document is clear about which ones apply only to v0).

-Peff
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