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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 7fee6b780a..508a344cf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -284,7 +284,9 @@ information is sent back to the client in the next step. The client can optionally request that pack-objects omit various objects from the packfile using one of several filtering techniques. These are intended for use with partial clone and partial fetch -operations. See `rev-list` for possible "filter-spec" values. +operations. An object that does not meet a filter-spec value is +omitted unless explicitly requested in a 'want' line. See `rev-list` +for possible filter-spec values. Once all the 'want's and 'shallow's (and optional 'deepen') are transferred, clients MUST send a flush-pkt, to tell the server side |