From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 22:30:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP 03/15] pkt-line: add delim packet support
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYw3y3grehEbFeoA2r7pEra079M7zVpcVwxcoK5BPN1Dw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171204235823.63299-4-bmwill@google.com>

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> One of the design goals of protocol-v2 is to improve the semantics of
> flush packets.  Currently in protocol-v1, flush packets are used both to
> indicate a break in a list of packet lines as well as an indication that
> one side has finished speaking.  This makes it particularly difficult
> to implement proxies as a proxy would need to completely understand git
> protocol instead of simply looking for a flush packet.
>
> To do this, introduce the special deliminator packet '0001'.  A delim
> packet can then be used as a deliminator between lists of packet lines
> while flush packets can be reserved to indicate the end of a response.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>

I presume the update for Documentation/technical/* comes at a later patch in the
series, clarifying the exact semantic difference between the packet types?