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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 2b267c0da6..9dfade930d 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ 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 -may optionally be sent in both protocols. +by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' and 'session-id' +capabilities may optionally be sent in both protocols. All other capabilities are only recognized by the upload-pack (fetch from server) process. @@ -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> ----------------- @@ -335,3 +365,16 @@ If the upload-pack server advertises the 'filter' capability, fetch-pack may send "filter" commands to request a partial clone or partial fetch and request that the server omit various objects from the packfile. + +session-id=<session id> +----------------------- + +The server may advertise a session ID that can be used to identify this process +across multiple requests. The client may advertise its own session ID back to +the server as well. + +Session IDs should be unique to a given process. They must fit within a +packet-line, and must not contain non-printable or whitespace characters. The +current implementation uses trace2 session IDs (see +link:api-trace2.html[api-trace2] for details), but this may change and users of +the session ID should not rely on this fact. |