From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 15:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] transport: add client side capability to request object-info
Message-ID: <xmqq8rrhnvph.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20220503231558.4172288-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

> RTT more than necessary. We could just determine if the server supports
> the attributes we want by using capabilities (without needing to send
> the request to check).

Hmph.  capabilities may cut in both ways, though.

Those clients that are not interested in object-info at all (which
are the majority of case where people clone, fetch or ls-remote),
they do not even need to know what kind of object attributes the
object-info command is prepared to report, and they would appreciate
not having to spend any extra byte in the capability-advertisement.

Of course, for object-info clients, having it upfront does make
things simpler.

So...