From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:50:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Message-ID: <7vej488gcu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <48B784FD.3080005@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> We should be able to detect either inconsistency, or lack of forward
> progress, but as long as there is forward progress made there doesn't
> seem to be a strong need to terminate.

Yeah, what I wanted to say was that it would be tricky to detect (any/lack
of) forward progress without having server side state and without trusting
the client.