> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
>
> > Since b4be74105f (ls-remote: pass ref prefixes when requesting a
> > remote's refs, 2018-03-15), "ls-remote foo" will pass "refs/heads/foo",
> > "refs/tags/foo", etc to the transport code in an attempt to let the
> > other side reduce the size of its advertisement.
>
> Jonathan, seeing 2b554353 ("fetch: send "refs/tags/" prefix upon CLI
> refspecs", 2018-06-05), I am guessing that you are doing the proto v2
> work inherited from Brandon?
Sorry for the late reply - I had some personal events, but I should be
able to look more at Git stuff from now on.
Well, it's true that I have been fixing some bugs related to protocol
v2.
> Having to undo this is unfortunate, but
> I agree with this patch that we need to do this until ref prefix learns
> to grok wildcards.
It is unfortunate, although as far as I can tell, the performance
improvements from "git fetch" (which I think is the more frequent
command called) remain, so it might not be so bad. I see from your
What's Cooking that these patches are to be merged to master, which I
agree with.
