From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:03:11 GMT Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a next-gen Git protocol (Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs) Message-ID: <7vfw1avjcw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 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. > 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.