On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:49:45PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > We limit the push options for now > * to not exceed an arbitrary count, and > * to not exceed an arbitrary size. > > This serves two purposes: > * DoS protection (i.e. one connection can add no more than 32kB > now) > * We need to figure out how to handle large (>64kB). Jeff wrote: > > Yes, but people are also happy when they can use a flexible and > > standardized tool to do a thing. I'd be more frustrated when I found out > > that Git's data-pushing protocol has arbitrary limitations (like, say, I > > can't push a data item larger than a single 64K pkt-line), which would > > easily just work with something like HTTP POSTs. > So to keep a way open in the future to deal with large pay loads, > the size is restricted for now. Should this bit get dropped from the commit message? -Peff -- 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