From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:38:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Two gitweb feature requests
Message-ID: <1146346681.10561.118.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604272250420.4963@mundungus.clifford.ac>

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:54 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> HTML has a <link> element which can be used to indicate alternate forms of 
> a page. Gitweb already generates one already to point people at the RSS 
> feeds.
> 
> Kinda messy to make all the git tools learn how to read HTML, though... 

They wouldn't necessarily need to. git-clone and git-pull attempt to use
URLs which wouldn't be used in normal gitweb usage -- for example, any
attempt to fetch http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git/HEAD or
http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git/refs/heads can be assumed to be
an attempt to clone or pull with git. So gitweb could be modified to
detect those URLs and give a simple textual redirect which the git tools
could understand.

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dwmw2