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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-05-30 14:04:10 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-05-30 14:04:10 +0900
commit54db5c0e1edf0d92bd474f515fab349b98c18a24 (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'bc/object-id' (diff)
parent{fetch,upload}-pack: support filter in protocol v2 (diff)
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Merge branch 'jt/partial-clone-proto-v2'
Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone. * jt/partial-clone-proto-v2: {fetch,upload}-pack: support filter in protocol v2 upload-pack: read config when serving protocol v2 upload-pack: fix error message typo
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@@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ included in the clients request as well as the potential addition of the
Cannot be used with "deepen", but can be used with
"deepen-since".
+If the 'filter' feature is advertised, the following argument can be
+included in the client's request:
+
+ filter <filter-spec>
+ Request that various objects from the packfile be omitted
+ using one of several filtering techniques. These are intended
+ for use with partial clone and partial fetch operations. See
+ `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values.
+
The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by
delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section
header.