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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt')
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 736f3894a8..ed1eae8b83 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ After reference and capabilities discovery, the client can decide to terminate the connection by sending a flush-pkt, telling the server it can now gracefully terminate, and disconnect, when it does not need any pack data. This can happen with the ls-remote command, and also can happen when -the client already is up-to-date. +the client already is up to date. Otherwise, it enters the negotiation phase, where the client and server determine what the minimal packfile necessary for transport is, @@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. shallow-line = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) - depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) + depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-since" SP timestamp) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-not" SP ref) first-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id SP capability-list) additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id) @@ -349,14 +351,19 @@ ACK after 'done' if there is at least one common base and multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed is enabled. The server always sends NAK after 'done' if there is no common base found. +Instead of 'ACK' or 'NAK', the server may send an error message (for +example, if it does not recognize an object in a 'want' line received +from the client). + Then the server will start sending its packfile data. ---- - server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak + server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak / error-line ack_multi = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id ack_status) ack_status = "continue" / "common" / "ready" ack = PKT-LINE("ACK" SP obj-id) nak = PKT-LINE("NAK") + error-line = PKT-LINE("ERR" SP explanation-text) ---- A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): @@ -466,13 +473,10 @@ that it wants to update, it sends a line listing the obj-id currently on the server, the obj-id the client would like to update it to and the name of the reference. -This list is followed by a flush-pkt. Then the push options are transmitted -one per packet followed by another flush-pkt. After that the packfile that -should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new -references will be sent. +This list is followed by a flush-pkt. ---- - update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile] + update-requests = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) @@ -493,12 +497,35 @@ references will be sent. PKT-LINE("pusher" SP ident LF) PKT-LINE("pushee" SP url LF) PKT-LINE("nonce" SP nonce LF) + *PKT-LINE("push-option" SP push-option LF) PKT-LINE(LF) *PKT-LINE(command LF) *PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF) PKT-LINE("push-cert-end" LF) - packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) + push-option = 1*( VCHAR | SP ) +---- + +If the server has advertised the 'push-options' capability and the client has +specified 'push-options' as part of the capability list above, the client then +sends its push options followed by a flush-pkt. + +---- + push-options = *PKT-LINE(push-option) flush-pkt +---- + +For backwards compatibility with older Git servers, if the client sends a push +cert and push options, it MUST send its push options both embedded within the +push cert and after the push cert. (Note that the push options within the cert +are prefixed, but the push options after the cert are not.) Both these lists +MUST be the same, modulo the prefix. + +After that the packfile that +should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new +references will be sent. + +---- + packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) ---- If the receiving end does not support delete-refs, the sending end MUST |