Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] pack-protocol.txt: Mark all LFs in push-cert as required

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:53:10 -0400

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:39:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> There is a slight complication on sending an empty line without any
> termination, though ;-)  The reader that calls packet_read() cannot
> tell such a payload from a flush packet, I think.
> 
> *That* may be something we want to document.

Usually flush packets are "0000", and an empty data packet
is "0004". Or are you talking about some kind of flush inside the
pkt-data stream?

-Peff