Re: [PATCH v4] http-backend: allow empty CONTENT_LENGTH

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > But that couldn't have been what older versions were doing, since they
> > never looked at CONTENT_LENGTH at all, and instead always read to EOF.
> > So presumably the original problem wasn't that we tried to read a body,
> > but that the empty string caused git_parse_ssize_t to report failure,
> > and we called die(). Which probably should be explained by 574c513e8d
> > (http-backend: allow empty CONTENT_LENGTH, 2018-09-07), but it's too
> > late for that.
> >
> > So after that patch, we really do have the original behavior, and that's
> > enough for v2.19.
> 
> To recap to make sure I am following it correctly:
> 
>  - pay attention to content-length when it is clearly given with a
>    byte count, which is an improvement over v2.18
> 
>  - mimick what we have been doing until now when content-length is
>    missing or set to an empty string, so we are regression free and
>    bug-to-bug compatible relative to v2.18 in these two cases.