Q: Can you write more data to client http connection?

I would like to write data back to client after a push event. I could not find a clear way to do this:

repos.on('push', (push) => {
  push.accept();
  push.client.write('---> Building Application.')
  // ...
  push.client.write('Done.')
})

Think of this like git push heroku master for deploying code. Heroku outputs the build logs during the push command.

$ git push foobar master

Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 633 bytes | 633.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0)
To http://localhost:7005/beep
 * [new branch]      master -> master

---> Building Application.
Done.

Thanks 🙏

[gabrielcsapo]

after months of this being an issue https://github.com/gabrielcsapo/node-git-server/releases/tag/0.5.0 we have landed 🚀

[xanf]

For those, who are looking for solution like me, here comes a code to get you started:

const pack = s => {
  const n = (4 + s.length).toString(16);
  return Array(4 - n.length + 1).join('0') + n + s;
};

repos.on('push', push => {
  push.on('response', str => {
    push.once('exit', () => {
      const SIDEBAND = String.fromCharCode(2); // PROGRESS
      const message = `${SIDEBAND}hello long long long\n`;
      const formattedMessage = Buffer.from(pack(message));
      str.queue(formattedMessage);
      str.queue(Buffer.from('0000'));
      str.queue(null);
    });
  });

  console.log(`push ${push.repo}/${push.commit} (${push.branch})`);
  push.accept();
});