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| author |  Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> | 2020-06-10 13:57:19 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-06-10 18:06:34 -0700 |
| commit | fd194dd56ad4c21a561bce4182a61c38bdf4588c (patch) | |
| tree | 176fb66dbfb080383cbb7b433706524c3caedd48 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URL (diff) | |
| download | tgif-fd194dd56ad4c21a561bce4182a61c38bdf4588c.tar.xz | |
Documentation: order protocol v2 sections
The current C Git implementation expects Git servers to follow a
specific order of sections when transmitting protocol v2 responses, but
this is not explicit in the documentation. Make the order explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index 7e3766cafb..995f07481e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -325,11 +325,11 @@ included in the client's request: The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section -header. +header. Most sections are sent only when the packfile is sent. - output = *section - section = (acknowledgments | shallow-info | wanted-refs | packfile) - (flush-pkt | delim-pkt) + output = acknowledgements flush-pkt | + [acknowledgments delim-pkt] [shallow-info delim-pkt] + [wanted-refs delim-pkt] packfile flush-pkt acknowledgments = PKT-LINE("acknowledgments" LF) (nak | *ack) @@ -351,9 +351,10 @@ header. *PKT-LINE(%x01-03 *%x00-ff) acknowledgments section - * If the client determines that it is finished with negotiations - by sending a "done" line, the acknowledgments sections MUST be - omitted from the server's response. + * If the client determines that it is finished with negotiations by + sending a "done" line (thus requiring the server to send a packfile), + the acknowledgments sections MUST be omitted from the server's + response. * Always begins with the section header "acknowledgments" @@ -404,9 +405,6 @@ header. which the client has not indicated was shallow as a part of its request. - * This section is only included if a packfile section is also - included in the response. - wanted-refs section * This section is only included if the client has requested a ref using a 'want-ref' line and if a packfile section is also |