From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:59:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] pack-protocol.txt: Mark all LFs in push-cert as required Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Dave Borowitz writes: >> That existing implementations of the receivers treat an empty packet >> (i.e. "0004") > > or "0005\n" ;) Is that true? I think len = pkt_line(); if (!len) break; /* flush */ would give you len == 1 and would not confuse it with a flush.