On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:33:15 -0800 Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/21, Jonathan Tan wrote: > > As someone who is implementing the server side of protocol V2 in JGit, I > > now have a bit more insight into this :-) > > > > First of all, I used to not have a strong opinion on the existence of a > > new endpoint, but now I think that it's better to *not* have git-serve. > > As it is, as far as I can tell, upload-pack also needs to support (and > > does support, as of the end of this patch set) protocol v2 anyway, so it > > might be better to merely upgrade upload-pack. > > Having it allows for easier testing and the easy ability to make it a > true endpoint when we want to. As of right now, git-serve isn't an > endpoint as you can't issue requests there via http-backend or > git-daemon. Is git-serve planned to be a new endpoint? If yes, I now don't think it's a good idea - it's an extra burden to reimplementors without much benefit (to have a new endpoint that does the same things as upload-pack). If not, I don't think that easier testing makes it worth having an extra binary. Couldn't the same tests be done by running upload-pack directly?
