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regid

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Registered: 2016-06-06

Posts: 207

git pull: POST git-upload-pack

$ git pull --dry-run --ff-only --verbose
POST git-upload-pack (972 bytes)
remote: Enumerating objects: 11, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), 770 bytes | 770.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://aur.archlinux.org/hplip-plugin
   a691e9d..a5b1035  master     -> origin/master

I didn't understand the information at http://shafiul.github.io/gitbook/7_tran … ocols.html.
What is this POST command? I can't recall seeing something like that in the past. With another local AUR package, I don't get this POST command.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,305

Re: git pull: POST git-upload-pack

As part of the smart git protocol over HTTPS, git sends a HTTP POST request to an location called git-upload-pack. That request returns the git objects you need to update your copy. git-upload-pack is the name of the process that runs on the server to collect all requested objects into a "pack" before sending it to you.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Inte … ading_data

You get the POST line since you asked for "verbose" information.

Last edited by progandy (2020-10-22 16:31:33)

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