Re: [PATCH] "git push": tellme-more protocol extension

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:24:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

So a potential improvement might be to ask for "tellme-more" only if we do
not know any of the refs the receiver showed us; my patch does it if there
is at least one unknown instead.

You can still get cases where doing this is more expensive than your
patch, because A..B is very small but shared_tag..A is very large. I'm
not sure which is more likely in practice.

-Peff