On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:33:15 -0800
Brandon Williams [off-list ref] wrote:

On 02/21, Jonathan Tan wrote:

quoted

As someone who is implementing the server side of protocol V2 in JGit, I
now have a bit more insight into this :-)

First of all, I used to not have a strong opinion on the existence of a
new endpoint, but now I think that it's better to *not* have git-serve.
As it is, as far as I can tell, upload-pack also needs to support (and
does support, as of the end of this patch set) protocol v2 anyway, so it
might be better to merely upgrade upload-pack.

Having it allows for easier testing and the easy ability to make it a
true endpoint when we want to.  As of right now, git-serve isn't an
endpoint as you can't issue requests there via http-backend or
git-daemon.

Is git-serve planned to be a new endpoint?

If yes, I now don't think it's a good idea - it's an extra burden to
reimplementors without much benefit (to have a new endpoint that does
the same things as upload-pack).

If not, I don't think that easier testing makes it worth having an extra
binary. Couldn't the same tests be done by running upload-pack directly?