From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:03:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] helping smart-http/stateless-rpc fetch race
Message-ID: <7vbow01ols.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJvdMCyU-5wzy0p1r+QJxXU=DJTE+Mu5G6pk9iAwAD51mA@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Why a new --allow-non-tip flag? Why not always do this with the
> existing --stateless-rpc flag?

It certainly would be much easier from implementation point of view, but I
did it that way for two and half reasons:

 (1) It might make sense to give admins who run upload-pack not behind
     smart-http an option to allow fetching from a non-tip; and

 (2) It also might make sense to let admins who do run upload-pack behind
     smart-http force re-fetching when the race is encountered.

and the remaining half-reason was that I was too lazy to think things
through to refute the above two "might make sense" and convince myself
that they should instead be "is not necessary".