Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:51, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yes, but I'm still missing something. What does the trailing \n ever >> have to be written? >> >> "git log -Sdisconnect_helper -- transport-helper.c" doesn't give many >> clues. I 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. ... which is the kind of clarification I wanted to see as the comment to document that no_disconnect_req field, whose semantics was unclear even to two people who are known to know a bit about git and had to ask you to clarify. -- 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