Re: [PATCH] http-push: Make WebDAV work with (broken?) default apache2 WebDAV module

From: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2006, 04:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20060811045801.GA4544@reactrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk65h3drd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:33:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > WebDAV on Debian unstable cannot handle renames on WebDAV from
> > file.ext to newfile (without ext) when newfile* already
> > exists. Normally, git creates a file like 'objects/xx/sha1.token',
> > which is renamed to 'objects/xx/sha1' when transferred completely.
> >
> > Just use '_' instead of '.' so WebDAV doesn't see it as an extension
> > change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rutger Nijlunsing <git@tux.tmfweb.nl>
> > Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> Good problem and workaround description.  Nick, does this look
> sane to you, or is there a more kosher way to handle this?

This looks good to me - while it seems like the problem is in the DAV server it also seems like problematic DAV servers will be less likely to trip up on an underscore in the filename.

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