From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:30:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP RFC 3/5] upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects out
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In-Reply-To: <e19f294df9ff999d30a47339a7848c7104bfae7d.1543879256.git.jonathantanmy@google.com>

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:37 PM Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
>
> Subsequent patches will change how the output of pack-objects is
> processed, so extract that processing into its own function.
>
> Currently, at most 1 character can be buffered (in the "buffered" local
> variable). One of those patches will require a larger buffer, so replace
> that "buffered" local variable with a buffer array.

This buffering sounds oddly similar to the pkt reader which can buffer
at most one pkt, the difference being that we'd buffer bytes
instead of pkts.