On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Right. :/ -- 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