Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2018, #02; Sat, 13)

From: Josh Steadmon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:20:08 -0700

On 2018.10.12 23:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * js/remote-archive-v2 (2018-09-28) 4 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2018-10-12 at 5f34377f60)
>  + archive: allow archive over HTTP(S) with proto v2
>  + archive: implement protocol v2 archive command
>  + archive: use packet_reader for communications
>  + archive: follow test standards around assertions
> 
>  The original implementation of "git archive --remote" more or less
>  bypassed the transport layer and did not work over http(s).  The
>  version 2 of the protocol is defined to allow going over http(s) as
>  well as Git native transport.
> 
>  Will merge to 'master'.

The first two patches (test cleanup and packet_reader refactor) are OK,
but the latter two will break the archive command when an old client
attempts to talk to a new server (due to the version advertisement
problem noted in [1]). Sorry that I didn't catch that these had made it
into next.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/[email-masked]/#t