Re: git push keeps writing after server failure

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

I did something stupid like trying to push a copy of WebKit[1] into my
GitHub account. This is ~5.2 GiB of data, which GitHub prefers not to
accept. Ok ...
...
Shouldn't git push realize its stream is broken and stop writing when
the peer is all like "uh, no, I'm not going to do that, but thanks for
trying"?

Nice wish, but I am not sure if we are structured to do that easily.
The "fatal:" message is going on the sideband that is demultiplexed
by a separate async "sideband-demux" thread and pack_objects() is
oblivious to what is being said on the error channel #2.