Re: Two gitweb feature requests

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:54 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:

HTML has a <link> element which can be used to indicate alternate forms of 
a page. Gitweb already generates one already to point people at the RSS 
feeds.

Kinda messy to make all the git tools learn how to read HTML, though... 

They wouldn't necessarily need to. git-clone and git-pull attempt to use
URLs which wouldn't be used in normal gitweb usage -- for example, any
attempt to fetch http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git/HEAD or
http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git/refs/heads can be assumed to be
an attempt to clone or pull with git. So gitweb could be modified to
detect those URLs and give a simple textual redirect which the git tools
could understand.

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dwmw2