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    pkt-line: add delim packet support · a4cfd41c
    Brandon Williams authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    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.
    
    To do this, introduce the special deliminator packet '0001'.  A delim
    packet can then be used as a deliminator between lists of packet lines
    while flush packets can be reserved to indicate the end of a response.
    
    Documentation for how this packet will be used in protocol v2 will
    included in a future patch.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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