On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I am _not_ proposing that we should go this route, at least not yet. >> I am merely pointing out that an in-place sidegrade from v1 to a >> protocol that avoids the megabyte-advertisement-at-the-beginning >> seems to be possible, as a food for thought. > > This is a fun thing indeed, though I'd personally feel uneasy with > such a probe as > a serious proposal. (Remember somebody 10 years from now wants to enjoy > reading the source code). That cannot be a serious objection, once you realize that NUL + capability was exactly the same kind of "yes, we have a hole to allow up customize the protocol". The code to do so may not be pretty, but the code to implement ended up being reasonably clean with parse_feature_request() and friends. After all we live in a real world ;-) -- 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