Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> >
> >>> Moreover, this is in the webdav-based "dumb http" push code path,
> >>> which I do not trust much at all.  I wonder if we could retire it
> >>> completely (or at least provide an option to turn it off).
> >>
> >> I would really like that, too. It has been the cause of a lot of pain
> >> when working with the smart code, and I am not at all surprised to find
> >> a bug of this magnitude lurking in it. I'd _hoped_ this could show that
> >> the system has been unusably broken for years, which would give us
> >> confidence to turn it off. :) But per your paragraph above, people could
> >> very easily still have been happily using it in the meantime.
> >
> > Same here.  Perhaps we should deliberately and silently break it and
> > see who screams?
> 
> Hopefully it should be obvious but just for people with unreasonable
> expectations, I should clarify that the above needs a smiley ;-).