From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:05:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update packfile transfer protocol documentation
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0911031405x60ea2396o35eea78a0b07fda9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091103005815.GW10505@spearce.org>

Junio,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> >> Shouldn't we say "the client MUST NOT make reference update request if
>> >> everything is up to date" which would imply that in practice there is no
>> >> reason to send an empty pack data?
>
> Creating new branch quirk aside, I do agree with this.  Clients
> shouldn't send no-op updates if it knows in advance the update is
> a no-op.
>
> --
> Shawn.
>

Would you prefer that I try to incorporate all these comments and
submit another patch, or are you going to modify it in-tree?

Thanks,
Scott