From: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:29:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden
Message-ID: <441EF46E.5050907@etek.chalmers.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6aqql9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>>http://digilander.libero.it /mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/objects/8d/ea03519e75f47d
> 
> To be fair, the site is _not_ missing anything from HTTP
> protocol perspective, because when git asks 8d/ea0351... file,
> the server responds with a regular "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" response.
> So it is _your_ repository that is corrupt -- instead of
> correctly _lacking_ the file you should have removed with
> prune-packed, it has a garbage file.

Actually, it sends a 302 redirect. 

Perhaps a repository config option to treat a 302 as a 404?

/Lukas Sandström