Re: [ANNOUNCE qgit-0.94]

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 10, 2005, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmzmkhhq5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050910171633.1179.qmail@web26303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:

> But now there is also a git archive: 
> http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/qgit.git

You do not seem to have the following files there:

    ~mcostalba/qgit.git/info/refs
    ~mcostalba/qgit.git/objects/info/packs

which explains why git-fetch and git-clone do not slurp from there (they think the repository is broken).

These files are necessary if you publish your repository over http for any serious use (i.e. other than only letting people slurp from HEAD, known branches and/or tags, without allowing discovery). Especially on a site like digilander.libero.it/ which does not give directory index, peek into what branches you have by looking in ~mcostalba/qgit.git/refs/ hierarchy would not even work, and that is the reason why you need to have these files to help the downloaders.