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Re: [RFC PATCH] Reduce the number of connects when fetching

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 6, 2007, 08:34 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
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> The tags that the server provides are those (and only those[*]) that
> reference objects in the packfile that it's going to send.
>
> [*] This way the client doesn't have to figure out which tags it
> wants; ...

Yes, but that shifts the burden to the sending side which is always bad. We want to make the client work as much as possible when it is practical.

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