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Re: [RFC 2/2] Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transport

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2008, 22:16 UTC
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I very much like it.

But could you be a bit more explicit than application/x-git-refs magic? I suspect very strongly that clueless server operators would advertise the type on repositories statically hosted there, and would defeat the point of your patch.

We are not changing update-server-info so if we can find a place we can use to hide the "magic", it would be a much more robust.

Perhaps "#" comment line in info/refs that is ignored on the reading side but update-server-info never generates on its own?

Or perhaps sort the output differently from how update-server-info produces its output, so that older client would not care but the magic aware client can notice?

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  39. Add Git-aware CGI for Git-aware smart HTTP transportH. Peter Anvin, Aug 13, 2008
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