Re: HTTP questions

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 2, 2006, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhd34dptq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060601232437.GD12261@reactrix.com>

Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com> writes:

> - "git push" seems to pass --thin by default to http-push, which
>   subsequently barfs because that's not a valid http-push option.
>   Should it be?  Should it be silently ignored?  Should git-push not
>   default to --thin when pushing with HTTP transport?

The way I understand http-push works is that it does not use packed transfer, so I presume even if we give --thin as a hint it cannot even take advantage of it. Probably we should stop passing --thin to http transport (git native one uses it as a cue that it can generate baseless deltas in the resulting pack).

> - when I clone, http-fetch outputs a whole bunch of 
>   "error: Could not read ..." messages - is that expected?

The clone over http seems to be severely broken in "next" right now. The one in "master" seems to be OK. bisecting suggests the breakage is coming from the tree parser rewrite.

bisect points at 136f2e548a34f1f504b0f062f87ddf33e8d6e83b.