Re: git clone problem through HTTP

On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Aubrey Li wrote:

On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Aubrey Li wrote:

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I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted,  

so I

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can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git
tree at all.

Linus packs his refs, which means that currently you can't clone  
using
http, with any version of git.

I really don't understand why packed refs or not depend on the  
protocol.
It doesn't make any sense.

I think it's simply because git-http-fetch doesn't look for the  
packed-refs file.  Are we actually going to support HTTP fetching?   
If so, we should update it to pull the packed-refs file too.  If not,  
it should be clearly marked as depreciated.  That said, I think HTTP  
is the easiest way for most people to publish and removing it would  
be a mistake.  I'd poke at it, but there's not enough spare time in  
the day at the moment.

~~ Brian