Re: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Possibly dumb-http could learn to do the same scraping that httpdirfs
does to get the refs and pack listings (though this might be quite slow
for unpacked refs, if the ref tree is deep).

Please don't.  Once you go that route, that is no longer "dumb http"
at all.