From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 07:05:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] t5551: mark half-auth no-op fetch test as v0-only
Message-ID: <20190323070548.GA24065@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190322190139.151189-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:01:39PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:

> When using protocol v0, upload-pack over HTTP permits a "half-auth"
> configuration in which, at the web server layer, the info/refs path is
> not protected by authentication but the git-upload-pack path is, so that
> a user can perform fetches that do not download any objects without
> authentication, but still needs authentication to download objects.
> 
> But protocol v2 does not support this, because both ref and pack are
> obtained from the git-upload-pack path.
> 
> Mark the test verifying this behavior as protocol v0-only, with a
> description of what needs to be done to make v2 support this.

Thanks, this looks like a fine solution to me.

I do not really expect anyone will ever get around to this NEEDSWORK,
but we can see. :)

-Peff