Re: git clone problem through HTTP

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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

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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
 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.

Yep.

 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.

I was hoping to find time to poke this over the weekend ... maybe even 
this evening.

-- 
Julian

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