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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:59:58 -0700

Dave Borowitz <[email-masked]> writes:

>> That existing implementations of the receivers treat an empty packet
>> (i.e. "0004")
>
> or "0005\n" ;)

Is that true?  I think

	len = pkt_line();
        if (!len)
        	break; /* flush */

would give you len == 1 and would not confuse it with a flush.