disabling PROPFIND when using smart http

Hello,

Although smart http worked fine for me out of the box, following "man git-http-backend", I've found folks on #git for whom it seems to fail on doing a PROPFIND (found by setting GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1). Enabling WebDAV also doesn't seem to help, although that is quite likely to be some nuance in the Apache config I suppose.

The thing is, I *think* that PROPFIND is not, strictly speaking, needed when you use the smart HTTP mode.  If that is indeed true, can we stop git from even attempting it, and so avoid the need to setup WebDAV on Apache?

Would be a great help for many installations.

Thanks,

-- Sitaram