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diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt index acb97ad0c2..414bc625d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ protocol. Protocol v2 will improve upon v1 in the following ways: semantics the http remote helper can simply act as a proxy In protocol v2 communication is command oriented. When first contacting a -server a list of capabilities will advertised. Some of these capabilities +server a list of capabilities will be advertised. Some of these capabilities will be commands which a client can request be executed. Once a command has completed, a client can reuse the connection and request that other commands be executed. @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ which can be used to limit the refs sent from the server. Additional features not supported in the base command will be advertised as the value of the command in the capability advertisement in the form -of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature 1> <feature 2>" +of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature-1> <feature-2>" ls-refs takes in the following arguments: @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ addition of future extensions. Additional features not supported in the base command will be advertised as the value of the command in the capability advertisement in the form -of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature 1> <feature 2>" +of a space separated list of features: "<command>=<feature-1> <feature-2>" A `fetch` request can take the following arguments: @@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ the 'wanted-refs' section in the server's response as explained below. want-ref <ref> Indicates to the server that the client wants to retrieve a particular ref, where <ref> is the full name of a ref on the - server. + server. It is a protocol error to send want-ref for the + same ref more than once. If the 'sideband-all' feature is advertised, the following argument can be included in the client's request: @@ -361,9 +362,10 @@ included in the client's request: If the 'packfile-uris' feature is advertised, the following argument can be included in the client's request as well as the potential addition of the 'packfile-uris' section in the server's response as -explained below. +explained below. Note that at most one `packfile-uris` line can be sent +to the server. - packfile-uris <comma-separated list of protocols> + packfile-uris <comma-separated-list-of-protocols> Indicates to the server that the client is willing to receive URIs of any of the given protocols in place of objects in the sent packfile. Before performing the connectivity check, the @@ -534,7 +536,7 @@ with objects using hash algorithm X. If not specified, the server is assumed to only handle SHA-1. If the client would like to use a hash algorithm other than SHA-1, it should specify its object-format string. -session-id=<session id> +session-id=<session-id> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The server may advertise a session ID that can be used to identify this process |