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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.h b/pkt-line.h
index 11b04f0..9570bd7 100644
--- a/pkt-line.h
+++ b/pkt-line.h
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
  * side can't, we stay with pure read/write interfaces.
  */
 void packet_flush(int fd);
+void packet_delim(int fd);
 void packet_write_fmt(int fd, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
 void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf);
+void packet_buf_delim(struct strbuf *buf);
 void packet_write(int fd_out, const char *buf, size_t size);
 void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
 int packet_flush_gently(int fd);
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ enum packet_read_status {
 	PACKET_READ_EOF,
 	PACKET_READ_NORMAL,
 	PACKET_READ_FLUSH,
+	PACKET_READ_DELIM,
 };
 enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer,
 						size_t *src_len, char *buffer,