Re: [PATCHv2 0/10] pkt-line and remote-curl cleanups server

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 05:41:13PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> > I don't think so. Don't ERR lines appear inside their own packets?
>>
>> Yes, I misread get_remote_heads for some reason.  Thanks for checking.
>
> Thanks for bringing it up. I had not even thought about ERR at all. So
> it was luck rather than skill that I was right. :)
>
>> I'm not sure whether servers are expected to send a flush after an
>> ERR packet.  The only codepath I know of in git itself that sends
>> such packets is git-daemon, which does not flush after the error (but
>> is not used in the stateless-rpc case).  http-backend uses HTTP error
>> codes for its errors.
>
> I just checked, and GitHub also does not send flush packets after ERR.
> Which makes sense; ERR is supposed to end the conversation. I can change
> GitHub, of course, but who knows what other implementations exist (e.g.,
> I do not know off-hand whether gitolite has custom ERR responses). So it
> seems pretty clear that just checking for a flush packet is not the
> right thing, and we need to actually parse the packet contents (at least
> to some degree).