Re: Strangely broken git repo

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Hmph.  Interesting.  I just tried.

$ curl 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED **INVALID**'

gives an error page "404 Not Found", while

$ wget -O - -o /dev/null 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED **INVALID**'

works fine and gives 2ddfec0dfd0cffd4892af9aaf48ee29c40c7ada3
back.  So we do need to fix things up somewhat in our scripts as
well.

It seems to be the space. Doing

  $ curl 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED%20**INVALID**'

works ok (ie %20 instead of ' ').

As far as I can tell, we should probably _also_ quote any curl-specific 
stuff. As far as I can tell from the manual, if the tag were to have 
special characters like '[' and '{', curl might confuse them with being 
range specifiers.

		Linus