Re: git clone problem through HTTP

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2007, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <E27761F8-7325-433C-89BB-B3475FA802A3@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <6d6a94c50704200638y7cd3c81aj3ff7f78863f4ab8d@mail.gmail.com>

On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Aubrey Li wrote:

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> On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Aubrey Li wrote:
>>
>> > I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted,  
>> so I
>> > can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git
>> > tree at all.
>>
>> Linus packs his refs, which means that currently you can't clone  
>> using
>> http, with any version of git.
>
> I really don't understand why packed refs or not depend on the  
> protocol.
> It doesn't make any sense.

I think it's simply because git-http-fetch doesn't look for the packed-refs file. Are we actually going to support HTTP fetching? If so, we should update it to pull the packed-refs file too. If not, it should be clearly marked as depreciated. That said, I think HTTP is the easiest way for most people to publish and removing it would be a mistake. I'd poke at it, but there's not enough spare time in the day at the moment.

~~ Brian