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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 546980c0a4..b898e97988 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ A few things to remember here: - The repository path is always quoted with single quotes. Fetching Data From a Server -=========================== +--------------------------- When one Git repository wants to get data that a second repository has, the first can 'fetch' from the second. This operation determines @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ with the object name that each reference currently points to. $ echo -e -n "0039git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0" | nc -v example.com 9418 - 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag + 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack + side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag 00441d3fcd5ced445d1abc402225c0b8a1299641f497 refs/heads/integration 003f7217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 refs/heads/master 003cb88d2441cac0977faf98efc80305012112238d9d refs/tags/v0.9 @@ -227,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery. The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as 'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of -the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which -it does not know exists on the server. +the client's history. The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the @@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped. ---- If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute -the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting -at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each +the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set +of commits start at the client's wants. + +The server writes 'shallow' lines for each commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth @@ -351,7 +353,7 @@ Then the server will start sending its packfile data. A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): ---- - C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d\0multi_ack \ + C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d multi_ack \ side-band-64k ofs-delta\n C: 0032want 7d1665144a3a975c05f1f43902ddaf084e784dbe\n C: 0032want 5a3f6be755bbb7deae50065988cbfa1ffa9ab68a\n @@ -367,7 +369,7 @@ A simple clone may look like this (with no 'have' lines): An incremental update (fetch) response might look like this: ---- - C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d\0multi_ack \ + C: 0054want 74730d410fcb6603ace96f1dc55ea6196122532d multi_ack \ side-band-64k ofs-delta\n C: 0032want 7d1665144a3a975c05f1f43902ddaf084e784dbe\n C: 0032want 5a3f6be755bbb7deae50065988cbfa1ffa9ab68a\n @@ -419,7 +421,7 @@ entire packfile without multiplexing. Pushing Data To a Server -======================== +------------------------ Pushing data to a server will invoke the 'receive-pack' process on the server, which will allow the client to tell it which references it should |