From: brian m. carlson Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 19:59:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2 X-Git-Tag: v2.28.0-rc0~27^2~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f46e7ead1d82538866265228f9d743f0e93e17a;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2 Document the object-format extension for protocol v2. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt index 7e3766cafb..107e421fb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt @@ -453,3 +453,12 @@ included in a request. This is done by sending each option as a a request. The provided options must not contain a NUL or LF character. + + object-format +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The server can advertise the `object-format` capability with a value `X` (in the +form `object-format=X`) to notify the client that the server is able to deal +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.