From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:28:44 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2015, #05; Tue, 19)
Message-ID: <20150519222843.GB994@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnhg6y8h.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:42:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * jk/http-backend-deadlock (2015-05-15) 2 commits
>  - http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
>  - http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
> 
>  Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
>  lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
>  Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
>  request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'.

FYI, my plan was to re-roll this with a configurable max-buffer value
(and a higher default). That can come on top if you prefer, though.

-Peff