Re: Issue 323 in msysgit: Can't clone over http

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

In order to support fetch/clone over HTTP, a server at least must respond
to requests to the follwoing locations sensibly, meaning that it gives us
back the data without frills if they exist, and give us Not found if they
don't.

 - $URL/objects/info/refs

   This must list all the refs available in the repository and must be
   up-to-date.  We do not run PROPFIND, nor parse $URL/refs/index.htm, but
   trust this file's contents and start from there.

Correction.  This is $URL/info/refs and the github repository in question
does respond correctly.  Sorry about the confusion.

Recent code makes CURLOPT_NOBODY request, which will turn into a HEAD
request over HTTP, to packfiles, in order to see if they exist.  Perhaps
github is not prepared to handle that and returns 500, even though it will
give the pack correctly if asked with a GET request?