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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index 09e4e0273f..292060a9dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -296,7 +296,13 @@ included in the client's request: 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. + `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values. When communicating + with other processes, senders SHOULD translate scaled integers + (e.g. "1k") into a fully-expanded form (e.g. "1024") to aid + interoperability with older receivers that may not understand + newly-invented scaling suffixes. However, receivers SHOULD + accept the following suffixes: 'k', 'm', and 'g' for 1024, + 1048576, and 1073741824, respectively. If the 'ref-in-want' feature is advertised, the following argument can be included in the client's request as well as the potential addition of |