> On 12 Aug 2016, at 19:07, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Lars Schneider > <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The welcome message is necessary to distinguish the long running >> filter protocol (v2) from the current one-shot filter protocol (v1). >> This is becomes important if a users tries to use a v1 clean/smudge >> filter with the v2 git config settings. > > Oh I see, that's why we're at v2 now. > How do you distinguish between v1 and v2? Does the welcome message > need to follow a certain pattern to be recognized to make it v2+ ? v1 has no format at all. It works like this: 1. Git starts the filter process 2. Git writes the entire file via stdin to the filter process 3. Git reads the result via stdout from the filter process 3. Git stops the filter process Any v2+ would need to deal with the following: packet: git> git-filter-client packet: git> version=2 packet: git> version=2+ packet: git> 0000 packet: git< git-filter-server Everything after could be different in v2+ compared to v2. Thanks, Lars -- 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