From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE qgit-0.94]
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.