From: Shawn Pearce Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:33:13 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] helping smart-http/stateless-rpc fetch race Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vpqkftrhg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 16:26, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> A separate option would allow admins to let their clients ask to fetch >> 4bc5fbf (that is v0.99~2) even if that commit is not at the tip of any ref >> if they choose to. That is what (1) is about, and people who do not want >> a separate option needs to argue that it is an unnecessary "feature". > > By the way, I personally do not think it is necessary, but as long timers > on the list may recall, this has come up on the list for a few times. My feeling is clients aren't likely to do this, or grow this feature anytime soon, so why add a backend option for it now? Lets add the feature when the feature is necessary... and right now just fix the race in smart HTTP. -- Shawn.