Heya, On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:51, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, but I'm still missing something. ÂWhat does the trailing \n ever > have to be written? > > "git log -Sdisconnect_helper -- transport-helper.c" doesn't give many > clues. ÂI imagine it's a way to check whether the child is still alive > and to warn it not to be alarmed when the output end of its input pipe > closes. Yes, the trailing \n is to signal to the helper that the connection is about to close, allowing it to do whatever cleanup necessarily. It's kind of like the "done" command for fast-import. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html