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Re: Git-aware HTTP transport

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Aug 28, 2008, 04:37 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> 
> So this is what may be the final draft of the HTTP protocol.
> I've added stuff about capability selection between the peers for
> future expansion support.  The upload-pack service has a better
> use of it than receive-pack.  Otherwise it is what I think you are
> agreeing to above.  ;-)
>

It looks good to me. I *really* like the option of combining a redirect with a refs list in one reply; this will make things substantially easier do deploy on kernel.org, and saves a round trip to boot.

Just an implementation detail for the server, however: for an *empty* repository (one which has no refs at all), the server needs to *not* transmit the redirect, or there will be a loop :) It is unnecessary, anyway, since there is inherently nothing to do.

	-hpa
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