Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] {fetch,upload}-pack: allow --depth=0 for infinite depth

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

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Users can do --depth=2147483648 for infinite depth now. It just looks
ugly. So make "0" special (i.e. infinite depth) at plumbing/protocol
level.

What happens if I connect to an older server? Shouldn't "I understand
depth=0 is infinite" be a server capability, and we hack around it by
sending depth=2^32-1 when we have a modern client but an older server?

Good point.  Do we also need to find out how wide an int is on the other
end in that case?