On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:08 PM Joey Hess <id@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The docs don't say what the maximum size is, so I assumed I could make > it as large as the length header allows, which I think is a natural > conclusion to draw from the documentation. But looking in git's source, > fff0 is the maximum: > > #define LARGE_PACKET_MAX 65520 > #define LARGE_PACKET_DATA_MAX (LARGE_PACKET_MAX - 4) [...] > Perhaps the best thing to do would be to document it in > Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt Could it be that you consulted an older version of this file? The current [1] version of the doc says: "The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65516 bytes. Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65520 (65516 bytes of payload + 4 bytes of length data)." [1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt
