Re: wishlist; unify behavior while cloning non-bare repos over http to be in line with ssh/local

Yaroslav Halchenko [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 10 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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The necessary update to the client might be as simple as using
$GIVEN_URL/.git/ and attempting the request again after seeing the
probe for $GIVEN_URL/info/refs fails.

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Sure -- workarounds are possible,...

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Just so that there is no misunderstanding, the above was not a
workaround but is an outline of an implementation of updated http
client shipped with Git.

ah, sorry, I have indeed might have misread it.  So we are on the same
page -- that is I saw also as the tentative implementation ;)

Good.  Now somebody who is interested in seeing that happen (when I
said "shipped with Git" above, I meant "shipped with possible future
Git") needs to find (or be) somebody to code that change ;-)

Thanks.