On 07/09, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> writes: > > > I agree with this observation, though I'm a bit sad about it. I think > > that having tag auto-following the default is a little confusing (and > > hurts perf[1] when using proto v2) but since thats the way its always been > > we'll have to live with it for now. I think exploring changing the > > defaults might be a good thing to do in the future. But for now we've > > had enough people comment on this lacking functionality that we should > > fix it. > > > > [1] Thankfully it doesn't completely undo what protocol v2 did, as we > > still are able to eliminate refs/changes or refs/pull or other various > > refs which significantly add to the number of refs advertised during > > fetch. > > I thought JTan's <20180618231642.174650-1-jonathanta...@google.com> > showed us a way forward to reduce the overhead even further without > having to be sad ;-). Am I mistaken?
That's true, what Jonathan mentioned there would avoid having to send "refs/tags/*" when requesting the refs. The question is do we wait on implementing that functionality (as another feature to fetch) or do we fix this now? -- Brandon Williams
