On 2023-05-17 at 21:48:39, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

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We recently fixed empty clones with SHA-256 over protocol v2 by
honouring the hash algorithm specified even when no refs are present.
However, in doing so, we made it impossible to set up a v0 or v1
repository by cloning from an empty SHA-256 repository.  In doing so, we
also broke the Git LFS testsuite for SHA-256 repositories.

This series introduces the dummy `capabilities^{}` entry for fetches and
clones from an empty repository for v0 and v1, just as we do for clones.
This is already supported by older versions of Git, as well as libgit2,
dulwich, and JGit.

Changes since v2:
* Move advertisement of fake capabilities ref to a separate function to
  avoid an extra strcmp.

We want this in -rc2 if not -rc1 for the upcoming release, right?
I've read the patch again and it all looked sensible.

If it's possible, that would be great.  I understand you just put out
-rc0, and I apologize for the delay in getting back to you, but it would
be ideal to avoid having the problem we're fixing in the release.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA