From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/35] pkt-line: add delim packet support
Message-ID: <xmqqfu5jfrlb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180228232252.102167-4-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> One of the design goals of protocol-v2 is to improve the semantics of
> flush packets.  Currently in protocol-v1, flush packets are used both to
> indicate a break in a list of packet lines as well as an indication that
> one side has finished speaking.  This makes it particularly difficult
> to implement proxies as a proxy would need to completely understand git
> protocol instead of simply looking for a flush packet.

Good ;-) Yes, this has been one of the largest gripe about the
smart-http support code we have.