From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:03:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
Message-ID: <xmqq60r5yidh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <EF153355-2DFB-41AE-A298-CCBE69184294@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

>> Unless the reasoning is "an error in between is so rare that we are
>> OK if the protocol misbehaves and the receiving end omits error
>> handing", I am not so sure how "therefore additional work is OK" is
>> a reasonable conclusion.
>
> Maybe I need to reword. An error is detected in either way if something
> goes wrong. The advantage of the two step status is that if we fail early
> then Git does not even need to create structures to read the response.

OK, that's much better.