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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Dan Wang <dwwang@google.com>,
	Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:51:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZ=5Jt3p5zUvve2Vy8+esWq5S8X0heGv5Unmtt_KQb8_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160714224617.GA22386@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:49:45PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> We limit the push options for now
>> * to not exceed an arbitrary count, and
>> * to not exceed an arbitrary size.
>>
>> This serves two purposes:
>> * DoS protection (i.e. one connection can add no more than 32kB
>>   now)
>> * We need to figure out how to handle large (>64kB). Jeff wrote:
>>   > Yes, but people are also happy when they can use a flexible and
>>   > standardized tool to do a thing. I'd be more frustrated when I found out
>>   > that Git's data-pushing protocol has arbitrary limitations (like, say, I
>>   > can't push a data item larger than a single 64K pkt-line), which would
>>   > easily just work with something like HTTP POSTs.
>>   So to keep a way open in the future to deal with large pay loads,
>>   the size is restricted for now.
>
> Should this bit get dropped from the commit message?
>
> -Peff

Right. :/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 21:49 [PATCHv7 0/4] Push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 22:46   ` Jeff King
2016-07-14 22:51     ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2016-07-14 21:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving " Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 21:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] push: accept " Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 21:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] add a test for " Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 22:38 ` [PATCHv7 0/4] Push options Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-14 17:39 [PATCHv5 " Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-09  0:31 [PATCHv4 0/4] Push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-09  0:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-07  1:12 [PATCHv3 0/4] Push options in C Git Stefan Beller
2016-07-07  1:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-07 20:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-07 21:50     ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-07 21:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-30  0:59 [RFC PATCHv1 0/4] Push options in C Git Stefan Beller
2016-06-30  0:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-01  7:14   ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 17:20     ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 17:59       ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 18:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 18:11           ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 19:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 19:31               ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 19:39               ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 19:50                 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 18:40         ` Stefan Beller

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