Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

On 21 Mar 2006 21:59:21 -0500, linux@horizon.com [off-list ref] wrote:

If someone feels ambitious, you can detect this condition automatically
by searching for a file that you know won't be there and seeing if you
get a 404 response to that.

Perhaps I am proposing a total idiocy, I don't know git-fetch
internals, but wouldn't be better to avoid trying to download a non
existing object? So to fix the problem at the origin?

I don't know if it is possible to list contents before try to download
so to avoid asking for a non existing object.

Marco