From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:53:35 GMT
Subject: Re: upload-pack is slow with lots of refs
Message-ID: <7vobkj4cb4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121003180324.GB27446@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> Has there been any work on extending the protocol so that the client
>> tells the server what refs it's interested in?
>
> I don't think so. It would be hard to do in a backwards-compatible way,
> because the advertisement is the first thing the server says, before it
> has negotiated any capabilities with the client at all.

That is being discussed but hasn't surfaced on the list.