Re: Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, I'm wrong.  It *doesn't* send the port.  The reason is obtuse,
> > but git_tcp_connect() clobbers the port number out of the host
> 
> What about git_proxy_connect()? Does it clobber port number either?

Dammit, not enough coffee.

We copy the string before the clobbering happens.  It *DOES* send
the port.  Either way, TCP or proxy.

JGit isn't compliant.  I'll send a patch soon.
 
> > name string, so that later when git_connect() sends this "host=%s",
> > only the host name is transmitted.
> 
> Hmmm... so does that mean that in the following fragment of deamon.c
> on branch is dead in practice?

No, its valid... I misread the client code.

> A question: do compliant implementation MUST not fail on receiving
> arguments it doesn't understand, e.g.:
> 
>    003bgit-upload-pack /project.git\0host=myserver.com\0user=me\0
> 
> or can it go hang the client, or silently fail?

My understanding is that a compliant server MUST accept and ignore
anything the client sends if it doesn't recognize it.

-- 
Shawn.
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