Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2008, #01; Tue, 05)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 6, 2008, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20080806142128.GA28231@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyjqsm04.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> [New Topics]
> * sp/smart-http (Sun Aug 3 00:25:17 2008 -0700) 2 commits
>  - [do not merge -- original version] Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware
>    smart HTTP transport
>  - Add backdoor options to receive-pack for use in Git-aware CGI
> 
> The "magic" detection protocol was revised to use POST to info/refs; the
> top one queued is from before that discussion.

I'm surprised you queued these. They really are not ready for application to a tree. For example the CGI is really messed up for trying to do Transfer-Encoding: chunked on its own, JH was right and Apache does it for us. That removed a good chunk of code from it.

Writing the client for this is slightly non-trivial. I more-or-less want to shove it into send-pack, not http-push, as the bulk of the protocol we need to speak is there in send-pack.

Anyway, I'm going to try to get back to this topic more later this week. I have been focusing on JGit this week (or at least trying to) as I really need to get some stuff done there for EGit.

-- 
Shawn.