Re: qgit reports errors in the git repository

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 17, 2005, 09:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu0d812vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550512170044v59f96262ica6511e981889ea9@mail.gmail.com>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

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> Using
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> git-clone http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/qgit.git qgit_test
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> does not work (never did). Peraphs it's time I dig a little bit deeper.

Do you keep qgit.git/info/refs, qgit.git/objects/info/packs, and possibly qgit.git/objects/info/alternates up-to-date under http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/? Your server seems to give friendly "no such page" instead of usual 404 not found for nonexisting paths, which means that you would probably need to have an empty info/alternates file there, and if you do not have packs then empty info/packs files as well.

Also I suspect once you start packing your repository the downloaders would have a hard time --- instead of getting "not found" as a cue to switch to fetching packs they would get the "friendly page" and mistakenly think the loose object stored in your repository is corrupt.