Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 03:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20080625033221.GU11793@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3fxr2jruy.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> What does "git ls-remote server:/home/vmiklos/git/test" invoke on server?

FYI, it actually runs git-upload-pack, gets the list of advertised refs, then closes the connection immediately. The other side sees the client hang up and just terminates silently, since the client didn't "want" anything packed and sent.

-- 
Shawn.

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