Re: [ANNOUNCE qgit-0.94]

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>
Date: Sep 11, 2005, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20050911081020.27248.qmail@web26303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>You do not seem to have the following files there:
>
>    ~mcostalba/qgit.git/info/refs
>    ~mcostalba/qgit.git/objects/info/packs 
>
>which explains why git-fetch and git-clone do not slurp from
>there (they think the repository is broken).
>
>These files are necessary if you publish your repository over
>http for any serious use (i.e. other than only letting people
>slurp from HEAD, known branches and/or tags, without allowing
>discovery).  Especially on a site like digilander.libero.it/
>which does not give directory index, peek into what branches
>you have by looking in ~mcostalba/qgit.git/refs/ hierarchy would
>not even work, and that is the reason why you need to have these
>files to help the downloaders.
>

Thanks, I will put the files.

Please, there is some doc where is explained how to convert a git-init-db created archive to a 'serious' one ;-) ?

What is the proper way of doing it?

Thanks Marco

P.S: Due to a subtle but nasty bug that I found too late I have upgraded the release to qgit-0.94.1 I strongly suggest to upgrade.

I am very sorry for this.

	
		
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