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document 'agent' protocol capability

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This was added in ff5effd (include agent identifier in
capability string, 2012-08-03), but neither the syntax nor
the semantics were ever documented outside of the commit
message.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2013-07-24 04:03:13 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
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@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and
recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process.
The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized
by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols.
by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. The 'agent' capability
may optionally be sent in both protocols.
All other capabilities are only recognized by the upload-pack (fetch
from server) process.
@ -123,6 +124,20 @@ Server can send, and client understand PACKv2 with delta referring to
its base by position in pack rather than by an obj-id. That is, they can
send/read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (aka type 6) in a packfile.
agent
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The server may optionally send a capability of the form `agent=X` to
notify the client that the server is running version `X`. The client may
optionally return its own agent string by responding with an `agent=Y`
capability (but it MUST NOT do so if the server did not mention the
agent capability). The `X` and `Y` strings may contain any printable
ASCII characters except space (i.e., the byte range 32 < x < 127), and
are typically of the form "package/version" (e.g., "git/1.8.3.1"). The
agent strings are purely informative for statistics and debugging
purposes, and MUST NOT be used to programatically assume the presence
or absence of particular features.
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