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[v2,3/4] protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256

Message ID 2e82be9e365d5157a604a599d764fa39664ab684.1597506837.git.martin.agren@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Series more SHA-256 documentation | expand

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Martin Ågren Aug. 15, 2020, 4:06 p.m. UTC
Two of our capabilities contain "sha1" in their names, but that's
historical. Clarify that object names are still to be given using
whatever object format has been negotiated using the "object-format"
capability.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
index 36ccd14f97..124d716807 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
@@ -324,15 +324,19 @@  allow-tip-sha1-in-want
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 If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may
-send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not
-advertised by upload-pack.
+send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not
+advertised by upload-pack. For historical reasons, the name of this
+capability contains "sha1". Object names are always given using the
+object format negotiated through the 'object-format' capability.
 
 allow-reachable-sha1-in-want
 ----------------------------
 
 If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may
-send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not
-advertised by upload-pack.
+send "want" lines with object names that exist at the server but are not
+advertised by upload-pack. For historical reasons, the name of this
+capability contains "sha1". Object names are always given using the
+object format negotiated through the 'object-format' capability.
 
 push-cert=<nonce>
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