Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> This is totally untested, but maybe something like this?
> >
> > It works for me. Just some trailing white space warning when applying.
>
> The change only removes the error message without changing any
> other logic, so if that works for you, I wonder if leaving
> things as they are is a better option than doing anything short
> of implementing an AI that tries to pattern-match the "allegedly
> corrupt file" with "sorry no such page found" in many natural
> languages.
>
> My test patch makes it impossible to track down the real
> breakage when an HTTP-reachable repository _does_ have a corrupt
> object.
>
> So how about doing this instead?
>
> -- >8 --

> +               fprintf(stderr,
> +"Some loose object were found to be corrupt, but they might be just\n"
> +"a false '404 Not Found' error message sent with incorrect HTTP\n"
> +"status code.  Suggest running git fsck-objects.\n");
> +       }
>         return rc;
>  }
>