From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:12:52 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45B8D704.9040905@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701250900380.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>> Either way, I think git-update-server-info should generate all these files.
> 
> Well, no. At least not per default. What you want is _very_ special to 
> gitweb. It is _only_ needed by gitweb. And .git/info/refs is for _dumb 
> transports_, _not_ for gitweb.
> 
> That said, I think it makes sense _in your setup_ to trigger updating 
> _another_ file for use in gitweb.
> 
> Remember, this is all very, very special for gitweb. So let's separate it 
> cleanly from all which is not special for gitweb.
> 
> I hope I have made it clear why (at least IMHO) it would be wrong, wrong, 
> wrong to change the format of .git/info/refs _only_ for gitweb, which it 
> is not meant for to begin with.

No, you keep using circular reasoning.

	-hpa