Re: [RFC] push: add documentation on push v2

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:31 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/17/2018 7:25 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:09 PM Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> Since introducing protocol v2 and enabling fetch I've been thinking
> > >> about what its inverse 'push' would look like.  After talking with a
> > >> number of people I have a longish list of things that could be done to
> > >> improve push and I think I've been able to distill the core features we
> > >> want in push v2.
> > > It would be nice to know which things you want to improve.
> >
> > Hopefully we can also get others to chime in with things they don't like
> > about the existing protocol. What pain points exist, and what can we do
> > to improve at the transport layer before considering new functionality?
> 
> Another thing that I realized last night was the possibility to chunk requests.
> The web of today is driven by lots of small http(s) requests. I know our server
> team fights with the internal tools all the time because the communication
> involved in git-fetch is usually a large http request (large packfile).
> So it would be nice to have the possibility of chunking the request.
> But I think that can be added as a capability? (Not sure how)