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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am _not_ proposing that we should go this route, at least not yet.
>> I am merely pointing out that an in-place sidegrade from v1 to a
>> protocol that avoids the megabyte-advertisement-at-the-beginning
>> seems to be possible, as a food for thought.
>
> This is a fun thing indeed, though I'd personally feel uneasy with
> such a probe as
> a serious proposal. (Remember somebody 10 years from now wants to enjoy
> reading the source code).

That cannot be a serious objection, once you realize that NUL + capability
was exactly the same kind of "yes, we have a hole to allow up customize
the protocol". The code to do so may not be pretty, but the code to implement
ended up being reasonably clean with parse_feature_request() and friends.
After all we live in a real world ;-)