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

From: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2006, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20060404175640.GE14967@reactrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060404152737.GN27689@pasky.or.cz>

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:27:37PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 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.

There are other reasons that a client can end up with a stale copy of the server info files - in this case the problem was an intermediate proxy out of the control of the repo admin.

While we should be able to fix that particular problem, it seems safer to go straight to the source if possible.

> So, it really seems rather redundant to me.

If I've already enabled DAV for pushing to a repo, I'd find it nice to be able to use it for fetches as well.

-- 
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for nature cannot be fooled.