On 08/29, Jeff Hostetler wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/25/2017 1:35 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Jeff King wrote:
> >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:53:21PM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote:
> >
> >>>Another version of Git's wire protocol is a topic that has been discussed 
> >>>and
> >>>attempted by many in the community over the years.  The biggest challenge, 
> >>>as
> >>>far as I understand, has been coming up with a transition plan to using 
> >>>the new
> >>>server without breaking existing clients and servers.  As such this RFC is
> >>>really only concerned with solidifying a transition plan.  Once it has been
> >>>decided how we can transition to a new protocol we can get into decided 
> >>>what
> >>>this new protocol would look like (though it would obviously eliminate the 
> >>>ref
> >>>advertisement ;).
> >>
> >
> >>I don't think libgit2 implements the server side. That leaves probably
> >>JGit, Microsoft's VSTS (which I think is custom), and whatever Atlassian
> >>and GitLab use.
> >
> >I'd be happy if someone tests the patches against those. :)
> 
> I just wanted to jump in here and say I've done some initial
> testing of this against VSTS and so far it seems fine.  And yes,
> we have a custom git server.
> 
> VSTS doesn't support the "git://" protocol, so the double-null trick
> isn't an issue for us.  But "https://"; worked just fine.  I'm still
> asking around internally whether we support passing SSH environment
> variables.
> 
> Jeff
> 

Thanks for checking on this, I really appreciate it.  Please let me know
if anything I haven't thought of becomes an issue.

I'm currently working on getting these patches into a more polished
state to be used (as discussed elsewhere on this thread) as a precursor
to an actual v2.

-- 
Brandon Williams

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