Re: [PATCH] Fixup no-progress for fetch & clone

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 14:27 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702240922250.29426@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iu80y6i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > How does that solve the issue with servers (currently all of them) that 
> > don't know about the new sideband?
> 
> I actually happen to consider that a non problem.
> 
> It is true that you can only prepare the client and server side
> by 1.5.1, and new clients talking to 1.5.0 or older servers
> would not be able to squelch the noise.  But that is _not_ a new
> problem anyway, and given time the server side will eventually
> be updated to 1.5.1 or later.  If anything else, it would give
> incentive to people to upgrade their servers to 1.5.1 ;-)

Well... for such a special case feature I doubt this might be such a great insentive. And since locally filtering on '\r' is so simple I wonder what the complexity of the alternative solution really buys us.

Nicolas

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Nicolas