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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-02-05 14:26:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-02-05 14:26:10 -0800 |
| commit | 073312b4c7a15d484d2ffdc2eb4a406df9cf9c55 (patch) | |
| tree | 473d2508e4ba7d7e424445d2ddce2a9cf659ea46 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | b99a579f8e434a7757f90895945b5711b3f159d5 (diff) | |
| parent | 87c2d9d3102e6c388f2d29f1bdb0b3a222d9a707 (diff) | |
| download | git-073312b4c7a15d484d2ffdc2eb4a406df9cf9c55.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'js/filter-options-should-use-plain-int'
Update the protocol message specification to allow only the limited
use of scaled quantities. This is ensure potential compatibility
issues will not go out of hand.
* js/filter-options-should-use-plain-int:
filter-options: expand scaled numbers
tree:<depth>: skip some trees even when collecting omits
list-objects-filter: teach tree:# how to handle >0
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |