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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2013-07-24 04:03:43 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-24 15:57:01 -0700
commit69fb96037fed30e7206f5ebab3d17f7989166120 (patch)
tree492672a97e2f27135cf42378469c896127f87f33 /Documentation/technical
parentdocument 'agent' protocol capability (diff)
downloadtgif-69fb96037fed30e7206f5ebab3d17f7989166120.tar.xz
document 'quiet' receive-pack capability
This was added in c207e34 (fix push --quiet: add 'quiet' capability to receive-pack, 2012-01-08) but never documented. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
index d35159eeab..ec131b6d03 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ was sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested
and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST
NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand.
-The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and
+The 'report-status', 'delete-refs', and 'quiet' capabilities are sent and
recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process.
The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized
@@ -200,3 +200,13 @@ it is capable of accepting a zero-id value as the target
value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it
simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values
to delete references.
+
+quiet
+-----
+
+If the receive-pack server advertises the 'quiet' capability, it is
+capable of silencing human-readable progress output which otherwise may
+be shown when processing the received pack. A send-pack client should
+respond with the 'quiet' capability to suppress server-side progress
+reporting if the local progress reporting is also being suppressed
+(e.g., via `push -q`, or if stderr does not go to a tty).