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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 2b267c0da6b2..ba869a7d366a 100644 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ was sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand. -The 'atomic', 'report-status', 'delete-refs', 'quiet', and 'push-cert' -capabilities are sent and recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) -process. +The 'atomic', 'report-status', 'report-status-v2', 'delete-refs', 'quiet', +and 'push-cert' capabilities are sent and recognized by the receive-pack +(push to server) process. The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' capability @@ -176,6 +176,21 @@ agent strings are purely informative for statistics and debugging purposes, and MUST NOT be used to programmatically assume the presence or absence of particular features. +object-format +------------- + +This capability, which takes a hash algorithm as an argument, indicates +that the server supports the given hash algorithms. It may be sent +multiple times; if so, the first one given is the one used in the ref +advertisement. + +When provided by the client, this indicates that it intends to use the +given hash algorithm to communicate. The algorithm provided must be one +that the server supports. + +If this capability is not provided, it is assumed that the only +supported algorithm is SHA-1. + symref ------ @@ -269,6 +284,17 @@ each reference was updated successfully. If any of those were not successful, it will send back an error message. See pack-protocol.txt for example messages. +report-status-v2 +---------------- + +Capability 'report-status-v2' extends capability 'report-status' by +adding new "option" directives in order to support reference rewritten by +the "proc-receive" hook. The "proc-receive" hook may handle a command +for a pseudo-reference which may create or update a reference with +different name, new-oid, and old-oid. While the capability +'report-status' cannot report for such case. See pack-protocol.txt +for details. + delete-refs ----------- @@ -309,15 +335,19 @@ allow-tip-sha1-in-want ---------------------- If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may -send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not -advertised by upload-pack. +send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not +advertised by upload-pack. For historical reasons, the name of this +capability contains "sha1". Object names are always given using the +object format negotiated through the 'object-format' capability. allow-reachable-sha1-in-want ---------------------------- If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may -send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not -advertised by upload-pack. +send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not +advertised by upload-pack. For historical reasons, the name of this +capability contains "sha1". Object names are always given using the +object format negotiated through the 'object-format' capability. push-cert=<nonce> ----------------- |