Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] convert: add filter.<driver>.process option

> On 15.09.16 22:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Wouldn't that complicate the pathname parsing on the filter side?
>>> Can't we just define in our filter protocol documentation that our 
>>> "pathname" packet _always_ has a trailing "\n"? That would mean the 
>>> receiver would know a packet "pathname=ABC\n\n" encodes the path
>>> "ABC\n" [1].
>>
>> That's fine, too.  If you declare that pathname over the protocol is
>> a binary thing, you can also define that the packet does not have
>> the terminating \n, i.e. the example encodes the path "ABC\n\n",
>> which is also OK ;-)
>>
>> As long as the rule is clearly documented, easy for filter
>> implementors to follow it, and hard for them to get it wrong, I'd be
>> perfectly happy.
>>
> 
> (Sorry for the late reply)
> 
> In V8 the additional "\n" is clearly documented.
> 
> On the long run,
> I would suggest to be more clear what BINARY is:
> 
> --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt
> @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ the length's hexadecimal representation.
>  A pkt-line MAY contain binary data, so implementors MUST ensure
>  pkt-line parsing/formatting routines are 8-bit clean.
>  
> +Each pkt-line that may contain ASCII control characters should
> +be treated as binary.
> +