From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:34:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Reduce the number of connects when fetching
Message-ID: <7v7ikvkc1z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47302218.3060409@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> 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.