Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] optionally send server-options when using v2

From: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:47:53 -0700

On 04/23, Brandon Williams wrote:
> Building on top of protocol version 2 this series adds the ability to
> optionally send server specific options when using protocol v2. This
> resembles the "push-options" feature except server options are sent as
> capability lines during a command request allowing for all current and
> future commands to benefit from sending arbitrary server options (and
> not requiring that sending server specific options be re-implemented for
> each and every command that may want to make use of them in the future).
> 
> These options can be provided by the user via the command line by giving
> "-o <option>" or "--server-option=<option>" to either ls-remote or
> fetch.
> 
> Command request example:
> 
> 	command=fetch
> 	server-option=hello
> 	server-option=world
> 	0001
> 	want A
> 	want B
> 	have X
> 	have Y
> 	0000
> 
> These options are only transmitted to the remote end when communicating
> using protocol version 2.

Forgot to mention that this series is based on current upstream master
(fe0a9eaf3) and a merge of origin/bw/protocol-v2.

> 
> Brandon Williams (3):
>   serve: introduce the server-option capability
>   ls-remote: send server options when using protocol v2
>   fetch: send server options when using protocol v2
> 
>  Documentation/fetch-options.txt         |  8 +++++++
>  Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt         |  8 +++++++
>  Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt | 10 ++++++++
>  builtin/fetch.c                         |  5 ++++
>  builtin/ls-remote.c                     |  4 ++++
>  connect.c                               |  9 ++++++-
>  fetch-pack.c                            |  7 ++++++
>  fetch-pack.h                            |  1 +
>  remote.h                                |  4 +++-
>  serve.c                                 |  1 +
>  t/t5701-git-serve.sh                    | 21 ++++++++++++++++
>  t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh                  | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  transport.c                             |  3 ++-
>  transport.h                             |  6 +++++
>  14 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.0.484.g0c8726318c-goog
> 

-- 
Brandon Williams