From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:28:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] gitweb: Separate HTTP header output
Message-ID: <20061228012800.GA16612@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iwc4xu9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> which means it does not omit generating the body anyway no
> matter what "sub http_header" did...
> 
> Or is there some Perl magic that makes a return from sub named
> *_header magically terminate the execution of the caller?

No magic.  Bad patch.  Your assessment of the patch is correct;
it is not avoiding the body generation for a HEAD request.

-- 
Shawn.