From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:48:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (take 2)] gitweb: Do not parse refs by hand, use git-peek-remote instead
Message-ID: <7vvenpzi1h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eedjrj$tja$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> But, if we change git_get_refs_list to do also work of git_get_references,
> we should also change git_get_references to not use info/refs file at all
> (it can, and usually for unknown reasons is stale) but always use
> git-peek-remote, for consistency.

Yes that would make sense.  A repository served by gitweb does
not necessarily has to serve objects over http transport, so it
is nicer not to require info/refs to even exist or up to date.