Re: HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone)

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 4, 2006, 15:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20060404152737.GN27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060404121056.GB14967@reactrix.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:10:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com> said that...

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> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:00:35PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Well, what is the actual advantage of DAV compared to
> > git-update-server-info? Why would I prefer enabling DAV?
> 
> In theory, things should work the same either way.  It seems that in
> practice though, the server info files continue to surface as a source
> of fetch problems.

Because people do not know they have to set up their post-update hook. When they are already going at lengths to find out how to set up DAV for git fetch, they would discover the post-update hook way as well.

So, it really seems rather redundant to me.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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