Re: Is anyone working on a next-gen Git protocol (Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2013, 16:03 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Do you have any plans for something that *does* have the reduction of
> network bandwidth as a primary goal?

Uncluttering gives reduction of bandwidth anyway, so I do not see much point in the distinction you seem to be making.

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> Is this what you've been working on? Because if so I misunderstood you
> thinking you were going to work on something that gave clients the
> ability specify what they wanted before the initial ref advertisement.
> ...
> 4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/207190

"Who speaks first" mentioned in 4. above, was primarily about "delaying ref advertisement", which would be a larger protocol change. Nobody seems to have attacked it since it was discussed, and I was tired of hearing nothing but complaints and whines. This "hiding refs" series was done as a cheaper way to solve a related issue, without having to wait for the solution of "delaying advertisement", which is an orthogonal issue.