pkt-line: add delim packet support

One of the design goals of protocol-v2 is to improve the semantics of
flush packets.  Currently in protocol-v1, flush packets are used both to
indicate a break in a list of packet lines as well as an indication that
one side has finished speaking.  This makes it particularly difficult
to implement proxies as a proxy would need to completely understand git
protocol instead of simply looking for a flush packet.

To do this, introduce the special deliminator packet '0001'.  A delim
packet can then be used as a deliminator between lists of packet lines
while flush packets can be reserved to indicate the end of a response.

Documentation for how this packet will be used in protocol v2 will
included in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.c b/pkt-line.c
index 1881dc8813..7296731cf3 100644
--- a/pkt-line.c
+++ b/pkt-line.c
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ void packet_flush(int fd)
 	write_or_die(fd, "0000", 4);
 }
 
+void packet_delim(int fd)
+{
+	packet_trace("0001", 4, 1);
+	write_or_die(fd, "0001", 4);
+}
+
 int packet_flush_gently(int fd)
 {
 	packet_trace("0000", 4, 1);
@@ -105,6 +111,12 @@ void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf)
 	strbuf_add(buf, "0000", 4);
 }
 
+void packet_buf_delim(struct strbuf *buf)
+{
+	packet_trace("0001", 4, 1);
+	strbuf_add(buf, "0001", 4);
+}
+
 static void set_packet_header(char *buf, const int size)
 {
 	static char hexchar[] = "0123456789abcdef";
@@ -301,6 +313,10 @@ enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer,
 		packet_trace("0000", 4, 0);
 		*pktlen = 0;
 		return PACKET_READ_FLUSH;
+	} else if (len == 1) {
+		packet_trace("0001", 4, 0);
+		*pktlen = 0;
+		return PACKET_READ_DELIM;
 	} else if (len < 4) {
 		die("protocol error: bad line length %d", len);
 	}