On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is wrong about that? 4*80k = 320kB overhead for length fields > to transfer 5GB worth of data? I do not think it is worth worrying > about it. > > But I am more surprised by seeing that "why not a single huge > packet" suggestion immediately after you talked about "without the > possibility to intervene". They do not seem to be remotely related; > in fact, they are going into opposite directions. > > Puzzled. Stefan's argument to me is thus "If we're already going to ignore sideband packets here, why not go all the way and make variable length packets and send a single packet of a maximum length? Doing thus will solve some set of future problems nicely and makes this code easier." I'm not sure I agree myself, but that's the logic as I understand it. -- 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