Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: optionally disable side-band-64k for transport

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Eric,

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 6:04 PM Thomas Braun via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since commit 0c499ea60f (send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with
> > status data, 2010-02-05) the built-in send-pack uses the side-band-64k
> > capability if advertised by the server.
> >
> > Unfortunately this breaks pushing over the dump git protocol if used
>
> s/dump/dumb/

Of course!

> > over a network connection when using MinGW (but *not* when using
> > mingw-w64).
> > [...]
> > The new config option "sendpack.sideband" allows to override the
> > side-band-64k capability of the server, and thus makes the dump git
> > protocol work.
> > [...]
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@byte-physics.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendpack.txt b/Documentation/config/sendpack.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> > +sendpack.sideband::
> > +       Allows to disable the side-band-64k capability for send-pack even
> > +       when it is advertised by the server. Makes it possible to work
> > +       around a limitation in the git for windows implementation together
> > +       with the dump git protocol. Defaults to true.
>
> s/dump/dumb/
>
> For someone who hasn't read the commit message of this patch, "work
> around a limitation in ... git for windows" doesn't mean much. Perhaps
> this documentation could explain in more precise terms under what
> circumstances this option should be used?

You're right, this is confusing, especially since Git for Windows 2.x does
not have that bug.

I simply dropped that sentence.

Thanks!
Dscho