This series adds the same sort of sideband channel we use in fetch (fetch-pack/upload-pack) to pass progress messages back to the client from the server side. 1) Allow run_command stdout_to_stderr when stderr is a pipe 2) Automatically close stderr pipes created by run_command 3) Refactor packet_write to prepare to integrate with sideband 4) Refactor send-pack/receive-pack capability handshake for extension 5) Add side-band-64k extension to send-pack/receive-pack for hook output 6) Redirect receive-pack hook output into sideband channel I didn't really see any comments from the list on this topic the last time I posted it for comment, so here is a rebased version on current master. -- Shawn. - 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