From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:24:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fetch: send "refs/tags/" prefix upon CLI refspecs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20180709175939.GC81741@google.com> Brandon Williams writes: > I agree with this observation, though I'm a bit sad about it. I think > that having tag auto-following the default is a little confusing (and > hurts perf[1] when using proto v2) but since thats the way its always been > we'll have to live with it for now. I think exploring changing the > defaults might be a good thing to do in the future. But for now we've > had enough people comment on this lacking functionality that we should > fix it. > > [1] Thankfully it doesn't completely undo what protocol v2 did, as we > still are able to eliminate refs/changes or refs/pull or other various > refs which significantly add to the number of refs advertised during > fetch. I thought JTan's <20180618231642.174650-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> showed us a way forward to reduce the overhead even further without having to be sad ;-). Am I mistaken?