Sometime in the far future, someone will write an interesting story about how a double null byte came into existence in the git request protocol, and it will be

Sometime in the far future, someone will write an interesting story about how a double null byte came into existence in the git request protocol, and it will be amusing and interesting to look back. As the saying goes, hindsight is always 20/20. I'm glad that they found ways to maintain backward compatibility, at only a minor cost to understanding things.