to its base by position in pack rather than by an oid. That is,
they can read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (ake type 6) in a packfile.
+If the 'shallow' feature is advertised the following arguments can be
+included in the clients request as well as the potential addition of the
+'shallow-info' section in the server's response as explained below.
+
shallow <oid>
A client must notify the server of all commits for which it only
has shallow copies (meaning that it doesn't have the parents of
Cannot be used with "deepen", but can be used with
"deepen-since".
+If the 'filter' feature is advertised, the following argument can be
+included in the client's request:
+
+ filter <filter-spec>
+ Request that various objects from the packfile be omitted
+ using one of several filtering techniques. These are intended
+ for use with partial clone and partial fetch operations. See
+ `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values.
+
The response of `fetch` is broken into a number of sections separated by
delimiter packets (0001), with each section beginning with its section
header.
further negotiation is needed.
shallow-info section
- If the client has requested a shallow fetch/clone, a shallow
- client requests a fetch or the server is shallow then the
- server's response may include a shallow-info section. The
- shallow-info section will be included if (due to one of the
- above conditions) the server needs to inform the client of any
- shallow boundaries or adjustments to the clients already
- existing shallow boundaries.
+ * If the client has requested a shallow fetch/clone, a shallow
+ client requests a fetch or the server is shallow then the
+ server's response may include a shallow-info section. The
+ shallow-info section will be included if (due to one of the
+ above conditions) the server needs to inform the client of any
+ shallow boundaries or adjustments to the clients already
+ existing shallow boundaries.
* Always begins with the section header "shallow-info"
1 - pack data
2 - progress messages
3 - fatal error message just before stream aborts
+
+ server-option
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If advertised, indicates that any number of server specific options can be
+included in a request. This is done by sending each option as a
+"server-option=<option>" capability line in the capability-list section of
+a request.
+
+The provided options must not contain a NUL or LF character.