Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2016, #04; Mon, 17)

> On 17 Oct 2016, at 15:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
> * ls/filter-process (2016-10-17) 14 commits
> - contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
> - convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
> - convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
> - convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
> - pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
> - pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
> - pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
> - pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
> - pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
> - pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
> - run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
> - run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
> - convert: modernize tests
> - convert: quote filter names in error messages
> 
> The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
> to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined.  A
> new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
> request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
> all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
> paths, reducing the process creation overhead.