From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:23:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Hiding refs
Message-ID: <CACsJy8A1=U2=TGoKyo5mo1fLW+hBR1psn1J6S0=391fei2JULw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140311014945.GB12033@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Right, I recall the general feeling being that such a system would work,
> and the transition would be managed by a config variable like
> "remote.*.useUploadPack2". Probably with settings like:
>
>   true:
>     always try, but allow fall back to upload-pack
>
>   false:
>     never try, always use upload-pack
>
>   auto:
>     try, but if we fail, set remote.*.uploadPackTimestamp, and do not
>     try again for N days
>
> The default would start at false, and people who know their server is
> very up-to-date can turn it on. And then when many server
> implementations support it, flip the default to auto. And either leave
> it there forever, or eventually just set it to "true" and drop "auto"
> entirely as a code cleanup.

I would add that upload-pack also advertises about the availability of
upload-pack2 and the client may set the remote.*.useUploadPack2 to
either yes or auto so next time upload-pack2 will be used.
-- 
Duy