Re: Problem with git fetch over http://

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2008, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vskx9o9ek.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0804251749390.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

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> John mentioned on IRC that clone works.
>
> $ git-ls-remote http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git
> 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530        refs/heads/master
> 365baca5174232cc35e4ed190fd8ce93c3611c84        refs/heads/v2.4.1
> f972a89073843fdbb2a1bef969d9ca70509d4bfe        refs/heads/v2.5
> 6a81d760dc4ab9028b27430124702c28c0b894ed        refs/tags/cvs-20040410
> fed3956a310a2ea8c8595b7fde7aaa0623492ca6        refs/tags/v0.1
> ...
>
> $ git-ls-remote git://newartisans.com/ledger.git
> 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530        HEAD
> 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530        refs/heads/master
> 365baca5174232cc35e4ed190fd8ce93c3611c84        refs/heads/v2.4.1
> f972a89073843fdbb2a1bef969d9ca70509d4bfe        refs/heads/v2.5
> 6a81d760dc4ab9028b27430124702c28c0b894ed        refs/tags/cvs-20040410
> fed3956a310a2ea8c8595b7fde7aaa0623492ca6        refs/tags/v0.1
> ...
>
> Looks like either server-info.c:update_info_refs() needs to also list 
> HEAD, or transport.c:get_refs_via_curl() needs to guess that $url/HEAD 
> exists and fetch it to add to the list, or both.

Wait a minute. How did "git fetch http://host/repo.git" work before C rewrite?

The reason I ask is because info/refs traditionally did not list HEAD and fetch either would have failed to start walking from HEAD (iow, the issue was very old), or it didn't care (iow, the issue is a regression after C rewrite).