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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index 995f07481e..f9f4e4ddd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -323,13 +323,26 @@ included in the client's request: 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. +If the 'packfile-uris' feature is advertised, the following argument +can be included in the client's request as well as the potential +addition of the 'packfile-uris' section in the server's response as +explained below. + + packfile-uris <comma-separated list of protocols> + Indicates to the server that the client is willing to receive + URIs of any of the given protocols in place of objects in the + sent packfile. Before performing the connectivity check, the + client should download from all given URIs. Currently, the + protocols supported are "http" and "https". + The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section header. Most sections are sent only when the packfile is sent. output = acknowledgements flush-pkt | [acknowledgments delim-pkt] [shallow-info delim-pkt] - [wanted-refs delim-pkt] packfile flush-pkt + [wanted-refs delim-pkt] [packfile-uris delim-pkt] + packfile flush-pkt acknowledgments = PKT-LINE("acknowledgments" LF) (nak | *ack) @@ -347,6 +360,9 @@ header. Most sections are sent only when the packfile is sent. *PKT-LINE(wanted-ref LF) wanted-ref = obj-id SP refname + packfile-uris = PKT-LINE("packfile-uris" LF) *packfile-uri + packfile-uri = PKT-LINE(40*(HEXDIGIT) SP *%x20-ff LF) + packfile = PKT-LINE("packfile" LF) *PKT-LINE(%x01-03 *%x00-ff) @@ -418,6 +434,20 @@ header. Most sections are sent only when the packfile is sent. * The server MUST NOT send any refs which were not requested using 'want-ref' lines. + packfile-uris section + * This section is only included if the client sent + 'packfile-uris' and the server has at least one such URI to + send. + + * Always begins with the section header "packfile-uris". + + * For each URI the server sends, it sends a hash of the pack's + contents (as output by git index-pack) followed by the URI. + + * The hashes are 40 hex characters long. When Git upgrades to a new + hash algorithm, this might need to be updated. (It should match + whatever index-pack outputs after "pack\t" or "keep\t". + packfile section * This section is only included if the client has sent 'want' lines in its request and either requested that no more |