On 03/01, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> One of the design goals of protocol-v2 is to improve the semantics of > >> flush packets. Currently in protocol-v1, flush packets are used both to > >> indicate a break in a list of packet lines as well as an indication that > >> one side has finished speaking. This makes it particularly difficult > >> to implement proxies as a proxy would need to completely understand git > >> protocol instead of simply looking for a flush packet. > > > > Good ;-) Yes, this has been one of the largest gripe about the > > smart-http support code we have. > > Hmph, strictly speaking, the "delim" does not have to be a part of > how packetized stream is defined. As long as we stop abusing flush > as "This is merely an end of one segment of what I say." and make it > always mean "I am done speaking, it is your turn.", the application > payload can define its own syntax to separate groups of packets. Thanks actually a good point. We could just as easily have the delim packet to be an empty packet-line "0004" or something like that. > > I do not mind having this "delim" thing defined at the protocol > level too much, though. -- Brandon Williams
