Re: Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jun 4, 2009, 07:17 UTC
Message-ID: <4A277507.2060409@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20090603202429.GO3355@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Servers MUST accept include-tag without error or warning, even if the
> server does not understand or support the option.
> 
> Servers SHOULD pack the tags if their referrant is packed and the
> client has requested include-tag.
> 
> Clients MUST be prepared for the case where a server has ignored
> include-tag and has not actually sent tags in the pack.  In such
> cases the client SHOULD issue a subsequent fetch to acquire the
> tags that include-tag would have otherwise given the client.
>

How is "no tags present" signalled? Without such a signal, the client must always issue a subsequent request every time there are no tags embedded in the received pack, as it can't know if the server ignored the option silently or if there just aren't any new tags.

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