From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:00:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2
Message-ID: <xmqq619q6zsx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZ22Fo5xGrk3x5+hV6WdbUg0A0h1fXgPBukenOxqyxVZw@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> So I started looking into extending the buffer size as another 'first step'
> towards the protocol version 2 again. But now I think the packed length
> limit of 64k is actually a good and useful thing to have and should be
> extended/fixed if and only if we run into serious trouble with too small
> packets later.

I tend to agree.  Too large a packet size would mean your latency
would also suck, as pkt-line interface will not give you anything
until you read the entire packet.  The new protocol should be
designed around a reasonably sized packets, using multiple packets
to carry larger payload as necessary.