From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:28:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090123223740.GA11527@coredump.intra.peff.net> Hi, On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote: > But I thought the issue at hand was that for some instances, we would > report that we successfully created an empty repository, when in fact > what happened was that we failed to clone a non-empty repository. And > that that was fixable, but it was a problem with our code interfaces > (which should be fixable) and not some fundamental limitation. It appears that the HTTP code (at least after the first round of Mike's patches) has issues there, yes, but I think it would not be fair to stop Sverre's patch because of that: the HTTP code needs fixing anyway, and this fix is orthogonal to the empty clones. Ciao, Dscho