From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:10:21 GMT Subject: Re: Issue 323 in msysgit: Can't clone over http Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7hwatw0v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I am torn about this. > > On one hand, if we are going to treat such a half failure as nothing > conclusive, I do not see a point to keep that check to begin with. > > On the other hand, if a HEAD request to a URL results in an unauthorized, > what plausible excuse the server operator could give for allowing a GET > request to the same URL?  If we are going to keep the check if *.pack that > corresponds to the *.idx will be available, shouldn't we trust whatever > check we perform? I am in favour or removing this check, not just due to its unreliability, but for the sake of consistency (we very rarely send a HEAD request to poll data before doing a GET). Do disregard the patch included earlier, if you haven't already done so. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan