{"thread":{"id":"6734","subject":"why the trailing \"/\" in git-clone and git-fetch ?","startedAt":"2007-02-08T04:44:58Z","lastAt":"2007-02-08T04:44:58Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["gary ng"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"33911","messageId":"20070208044459.98335.qmail@web30508.mail.mud.yahoo.com","threadId":"6734","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"why the trailing \"/\" in git-clone and git-fetch ?","fromName":"gary ng","fromEmail":"garyng2000@yahoo.com","sentAt":"2007-02-08T04:44:58Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-08T04:44:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"garyng2000@yahoo.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nis there any reason why this is added deliberately to\nthe \"base\" parameter ?\n\nThe result is that if I serve a packed git repository\nthrough HTTP server, this parameter would be used to\nconstruct \"path\" to packs as in\n\"$(base)/objects/info/packs\" resulting in\n\"something//objects/info/packs\"\n\nThis is fine for most setup but for some server which\ndon't compress the \"//\" and the backend store is not a\nfile system(say amazon S3), it would be a 404.\n\nregards,\n\n\n\n \n____________________________________________________________________________________\n8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time \nwith the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.\nhttp://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news\n"}]}