Re: [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options

> We limit the push options for now
> * to not exceed an arbitrary count, and
> * to not exceed an arbitrary size.
> 
> This serves two purposes:
> * DoS protection (i.e. one connection can add no more than 32kB
>   now)
> * We need to figure out how to handle large (>64kB). Jeff wrote:
>   > Yes, but people are also happy when they can use a flexible and
>   > standardized tool to do a thing. I'd be more frustrated when I found out
>   > that Git's data-pushing protocol has arbitrary limitations (like, say, I
>   > can't push a data item larger than a single 64K pkt-line), which would
>   > easily just work with something like HTTP POSTs.
>   So to keep a way open in the future to deal with large pay loads,
>   the size is restricted for now.