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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index ba869a7d36..9dfade930d 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ and 'push-cert' 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 -by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' capability -may optionally be sent in both protocols. +by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' and 'session-id' +capabilities may optionally be sent in both protocols. All other capabilities are only recognized by the upload-pack (fetch from server) process. @@ -365,3 +365,16 @@ If the upload-pack server advertises the 'filter' capability, fetch-pack may send "filter" commands to request a partial clone or partial fetch and request that the server omit various objects from the packfile. + +session-id=<session id> +----------------------- + +The server may advertise a session ID that can be used to identify this process +across multiple requests. The client may advertise its own session ID back to +the server as well. + +Session IDs should be unique to a given process. They must fit within a +packet-line, and must not contain non-printable or whitespace characters. The +current implementation uses trace2 session IDs (see +link:api-trace2.html[api-trace2] for details), but this may change and users of +the session ID should not rely on this fact. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index e597b74da3..85daeb5d9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -492,3 +492,16 @@ form `object-format=X`) to notify the client that the server is able to deal with objects using hash algorithm X. If not specified, the server is assumed to only handle SHA-1. If the client would like to use a hash algorithm other than SHA-1, it should specify its object-format string. + +session-id=<session id> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The server may advertise a session ID that can be used to identify this process +across multiple requests. The client may advertise its own session ID back to +the server as well. + +Session IDs should be unique to a given process. They must fit within a +packet-line, and must not contain non-printable or whitespace characters. The +current implementation uses trace2 session IDs (see +link:api-trace2.html[api-trace2] for details), but this may change and users of +the session ID should not rely on this fact. |