Re: [PATCH v4 11/12] convert: add filter.<driver>.process option

> On 03 Aug 2016, at 19:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> packet:          git< git-filter-protocol\n
>> packet:          git< version=2\n
>> packet:          git< capabilities=clean smudge\n
> 
> During the discussion on the future of pack-protocol, it was pointed
> out that having to shove all capabilities on a single line/packet
> was one of the things we would want to fix in the current protocol
> when we revamp to v2.  As this exhange between the convert machinery
> and an external process is a brand new one, I do not think you want
> to mimic the limitation in the current pack protocol like this; the
> limitation mostly came from the constraint that we cannot break
> existing pack protocol clients and servers before we extended the
> protocol to add capabilities.
> 
> You may not foresee that the caps won't grow very long beyond
> clean/smudge right now, just like we did not foresee that we would
> wish to be able to convey a lot longer capability values to the
> other side when we added the capability exchange to the pack
> protocol, so "but but but we will never have that many" is not a
> good counter-argument.