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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index 09e4e0273f..ead85ce35c 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 @@ -307,6 +313,16 @@ the 'wanted-refs' section in the server's response as explained below. particular ref, where <ref> is the full name of a ref on the server. +If the 'sideband-all' feature is advertised, the following argument can be +included in the client's request: + + sideband-all + Instruct the server to send the whole response multiplexed, not just + the packfile section. All non-flush and non-delim PKT-LINE in the + response (not only in the packfile section) will then start with a byte + indicating its sideband (1, 2, or 3), and the server may send "0005\2" + (a PKT-LINE of sideband 2 with no payload) as a keepalive packet. + The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section header. |