Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] fetch-pack: put shallow info in output parameter

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 26, 2018, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfu19i5rq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180626205438.110764-8-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> Expand the transport fetch method signature, by adding an output
> parameter, to allow transports to return information about the refs they
> have fetched.  Then communicate shallow status information through this
> mechanism instead of by modifying the input list of refs.

Makes sense. Would this mechanism also allow us to be more explicit about the "tag following"?

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