Re: Strangely broken git repo

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 10, 2005, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510100742070.14597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q7p927d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> Hmph.  Interesting.  I just tried.
> 
> $ curl 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED **INVALID**'
> 
> gives an error page "404 Not Found", while
> 
> $ wget -O - -o /dev/null 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED **INVALID**'
> 
> works fine and gives 2ddfec0dfd0cffd4892af9aaf48ee29c40c7ada3
> back.  So we do need to fix things up somewhat in our scripts as
> well.

It seems to be the space. Doing

  $ curl 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED%20**INVALID**'

works ok (ie %20 instead of ' ').

As far as I can tell, we should probably _also_ quote any curl-specific stuff. As far as I can tell from the manual, if the tag were to have special characters like '[' and '{', curl might confuse them with being range specifiers.

		Linus