> On Feb 21, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I agree the document is buggy. Do you want to submit a patch?
Will this do?
Note I am not sure what the story is behind that `version 1` element, whether it's supposed to go before or after the null packet or if there should be another null packet or what. Perhaps somebody more fluent with the smart protocol can advise.
---
Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
index a0e45f2889e6e..19d73f7efb338 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
@@ -214,14 +214,17 @@ smart server reply:
S: Cache-Control: no-cache
S:
S: 001e# service=git-upload-pack\n
+ S: 0000
S: 004895dcfa3633004da0049d3d0fa03f80589cbcaf31 refs/heads/maint\0multi_ack\n
S: 0042d049f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 refs/heads/master\n
S: 003c2cb58b79488a98d2721cea644875a8dd0026b115 refs/tags/v1.0\n
S: 003fa3c2e2402b99163d1d59756e5f207ae21cccba4c refs/tags/v1.0^{}\n
+ S: 0000
The client may send Extra Parameters (see
Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt) as a colon-separated string
-in the Git-Protocol HTTP header.
+in the Git-Protocol HTTP header. Note as well that there is *no* newline
+after the `0000`.
Dumb Server Response
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -264,8 +267,8 @@ Servers MUST set $servicename to be the request parameter value.
Servers SHOULD include an LF at the end of this line.
Clients MUST ignore an LF at the end of the line.
-Servers MUST terminate the response with the magic `0000` end
-pkt-line marker.
+Servers MUST follow the first pkt-line, as well as terminate the
+response, with the magic `0000` end pkt-line marker.
The returned response is a pkt-line stream describing each ref and
its known value. The stream SHOULD be sorted by name according to
@@ -278,6 +281,7 @@ Extra Parameter.
smart_reply = PKT-LINE("# service=$servicename" LF)
*1("version 1")
+ "0000"
ref_list
"0000"
ref_list = empty_list / non_empty_list
--
Dorian Taylor
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