From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] fetch-pack: put shallow info in output parameter
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"?