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2016-08-31Merge branch 'ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Correct an age-old calco (is that a typo-like word for calc) in the documentation. * ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix: pack-protocol: fix maximum pkt-line size
2016-08-30pack-protocol: fix maximum pkt-line sizeLibravatar Lars Schneider1-3/+3
According to LARGE_PACKET_MAX in pkt-line.h the maximal length of a pkt-line packet is 65520 bytes. The pkt-line header takes 4 bytes and therefore the pkt-line data component must not exceed 65516 bytes. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-03pack-protocol: clarify LF-handling in PKT-LINE()Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+4
The spec is very inconsistent about which PKT-LINE() parts of the grammar include a LF. On top of that, the code is not consistent, either (e.g., send-pack does not put newlines into the ref-update commands it sends). Let's make explicit the long-standing expectation that we generally expect pkt-lines to end in a newline, but that receivers should be lenient. This makes the spec consistent, and matches what git already does (though it does not always fulfill the SHOULD). We do make an exception for the push-cert, where the receiving code is currently a bit pickier. This is a reasonable way to be, as the data needs to be byte-for-byte compatible with what was signed. We _could_ make up some rules about signing a canonicalized version including newlines, but that would require a code change, and is out of scope for this patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Libravatar Justin Lebar1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13Update packfile transfer protocol documentationLibravatar Scott Chacon1-0/+96
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully. Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format. Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress, include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status. Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>