From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:34:16 GMT
Subject: Re: http-protocol question
Message-ID: <20141202033416.GY6527@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGyf7-HmvvHQZkyLgKAs2rrZTTLFkBa8s828hbS9LedLNb2fWA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bryan,

Bryan Turner wrote:

> Is there actually logic somewhere in Git that does that "MAY walk
> backwards" step?

Yes.  See upload-pack.c::check_non_tip and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/178814.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan