{"thread":{"id":"53491","subject":"contents of a .git file","startedAt":"2020-05-17T21:58:55Z","lastAt":"2020-05-18T01:02:11Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["bruce","brian m. carlson"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"398031","messageId":"CAP16ngpd_GbfUkSuBks5jk2vskks5_SRmVHOmfaEUTLoWiD8hQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"53491","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"contents of a .git file","fromName":"bruce","fromEmail":"badouglas@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-05-17T21:58:41Z","receivedAt":"2020-05-17T21:58:55Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"badouglas@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi.\n\nHope this is a place to ask this.\n\nThere are lots of foo.git files.\n\nI'm trying to figure out what's un a git file. As an example,\nhttp://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git gets the drupal repos.\nHowever, I can't seem to find the drupal.git file. Even a net search\ndoesnt seem to turn up a file that I can view!!\n\nAny pointers/thoughts would be helpful.\n\nthanks!\n"},{"id":"398036","messageId":"20200518010131.GM6362@camp.crustytoothpaste.net","threadId":"53491","inReplyTo":"CAP16ngpd_GbfUkSuBks5jk2vskks5_SRmVHOmfaEUTLoWiD8hQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: contents of a .git file","fromName":"brian m. carlson","fromEmail":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","sentAt":"2020-05-18T01:01:31Z","receivedAt":"2020-05-18T01:02:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sandals@crustytoothpaste.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/497054?v=4"},"body":"On 2020-05-17 at 21:58:41, bruce wrote:\n> Hi.\n> \n> Hope this is a place to ask this.\n> \n> There are lots of foo.git files.\n> \n> I'm trying to figure out what's un a git file. As an example,\n>  gets the drupal repos.\n> However, I can't seem to find the drupal.git file. Even a net search\n> doesnt seem to turn up a file that I can view!!\n> \n> Any pointers/thoughts would be helpful.\n\nThe ending \".git\" is just a conventional approach to indicate that a URL\nor directory is a bare repository.  When using HTTP, the actual files\nare served from other locations, depending on whether the site is using\nthe smart or dumb HTTP protocol.  Most major hosting platforms prefer\nthe smart protocol because it can send a lot less data.\n\nSo there really isn't a single file; instead, there's either some static\nfiles and some manifests (for the dumb protocol) or conversations with a\nCGI client (for the smart protocol).  You can read more about it in\nDocumentation/technical/http-protocol.txt, and if you're interested, you\ncan run your operations with GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 to see the endpoints\nthat are contacted.  (Be aware that that output may contain\ncredentials.)\n-- \nbrian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US\nOpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204\n"}]}