From: Julian Phillips Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:19:25 GMT Subject: Re: git clone problem through HTTP Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Aubrey Li wrote: > >> On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips 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. Yep. > 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. I was hoping to find time to poke this over the weekend ... maybe even this evening. -- Julian --- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.