From: Imran M Yousuf Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:40:07 GMT Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport Message-ID: <7bfdc29a0808272340kdc2f3b0x250eef32b25dcdcb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48B62B6F.7010103@zytor.com> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> >> 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. I agree, this is a very cool feature of the protocol... - Imran > > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Imran M Yousuf Entrepreneur & Software Engineer Smart IT Engineering Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: imran@smartitengineering.com Blog: http://imyousuf-tech.blogs.smartitengineering.com/ Mobile: +880-1711402557