Re: [RFC PATCH] Reduce the number of connects when fetching

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

The tags that the server provides are those (and only those[*]) that
reference objects in the packfile that it's going to send.

[*] This way the client doesn't have to figure out which tags it
wants; ...

Yes, but that shifts the burden to the sending side which is
always bad.  We want to make the client work as much as possible
when it is practical.