Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2009, #02; Sat, 05)

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Martin Storsj? <martin@martin.st> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > * tr/http-updates (2009-12-01) 3 commits
> >  - Allow curl to rewind the RPC read buffer
> >  - Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic
> >  - http: maintain curl sessions
> > 
> > There was a discussion on a better structure not to require rewinding in
> > the first place?  I didn't follow it closely...
> 
> I think the conclusion is: Rewinding support isn't strictly necessary, 
> there's a number of mechanisms in both git and curl that should make sure 
> that those cases shouldn't surface. A few of them in curl have an 
> unfortunate conincidence of bugs up until the latest version, though, 
> leaving much fewer mechanisms in place to avoid this.
> 
> Since that patch is quite non-intrusive I think it's a good safeguard, 
> though. What do you think, Tay, keep it or leave it?

I think the conclusion of the thread was that what you have queued
in tr/http-updates is OK as-is.  The patch to grow the postbuffer
to store the entire request wasn't a good idea and got dropped.

-- 
Shawn.