Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 24, 2006, 18:40 UTC
Message-ID: <44243D20.9060309@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <slrne28b3a.cp6.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

Mark Wooding wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I'm not sure what the best "object that's not supposed to be there" is.
>>
>>.git/objects/00/hoping-for-a-404-or-webadmin-should-fix
> 
> 
> If .git/objects/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000 exists, the
> repository has big problems already.
>

Indeed. I'm off sobriety again, it being friday and all, but I'm assuming there are more than 18 zeroes there, yes? The "feature" of the above line is that it will fit in any buffer that already exists, and will match any third argument to send(2) that already exists.

> (Aside: `C-u 38 0' doesn't work because Emacs hears `C-u 380' and waits
> for a key.  `M-: (insert-char ?0 38) RET' does the right thing, but is
> ugly.  Any better suggestions?)
>

This I happily don't understand at all. I'm also happy ignorant of what it has to do with the issue at hand.

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