Merge branch 'jk/maint-merge-msg-fix' into maint

[git.git] / connect.c

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 692d47657899b8903042c06443d4ecc3a749bba0..76e542776abff8d07e7250ecfc8c7ae813302b2d 100644 (file)
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static void git_proxy_connect(int fd[2], char *host)
 
 #define MAX_CMD_LEN 1024
 
-char *get_port(char *host)
+static char *get_port(char *host)
 {
        char *end;
        char *p = strchr(host, ':');
@@ -579,7 +579,10 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
                        git_tcp_connect(fd, host, flags);
                /*
                 * Separate original protocol components prog and path
-                * from extended components with a NUL byte.
+                * from extended host header with a NUL byte.
+                *
+                * Note: Do not add any other headers here!  Doing so
+                * will cause older git-daemon servers to crash.
                 */
                packet_write(fd[1],
                             "%s %s%chost=%s%c",