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Re: [RFC PATCH] Add WEBDAV timeout to http-fetch.

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Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
Oct 8, 2006, 13:19 UTC
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On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:52:02 -0700 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Using DAV, if it works with the server, has the advantage of not
> having to keep objects/info/packs up-to-date from repository
> owner's point of view.  But the repository owner ends up keeping
> up-to-date as a side effect of keeping info/refs up-to-date
> anyway (as I do not see a code to read that information over
> DAV), so there is no point doing this over DAV in practice.
> 
> Perhaps we should remove call to remote_ls() from
> fetch_indices() unconditionally, not just protected with
> NO_EXPAT and be done with it?

That makes a lot of sense. A server really has to always provide a objects/info/packs anyway, just to be fetchable today by clients that are compiled with NO_EXPAT.

+1
Sean
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Message 13 of 19 in “Problem cloning packed-and-pruned http repository”
  1. Panagiotis IssarisOct 6, 2006
  2. Panagiotis IssarisOct 6, 2006
  3. SeanOct 6, 2006
  4. Add WEBDAV timeout to http-fetch.Sean, Oct 7, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiOct 7, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 7, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisOct 7, 2006
  9. Petr BaudisOct 7, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinOct 7, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 8, 2006
  13. SeanOct 8, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2006
  15. Panagiotis IssarisOct 11, 2006
  16. Johannes SchindelinOct 11, 2006
  17. Panagiotis IssarisOct 7, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2006
  19. Panagiotis IssarisOct 7, 2006

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