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Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From
MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2006, 06:06 UTC
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On 21 Mar 2006 21:59:21 -0500, linux@horizon.com <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
> If someone feels ambitious, you can detect this condition automatically
> by searching for a file that you know won't be there and seeing if you
> get a 404 response to that.
>

Perhaps I am proposing a total idiocy, I don't know git-fetch internals, but wouldn't be better to avoid trying to download a non existing object? So to fix the problem at the origin?

I don't know if it is possible to list contents before try to download so to avoid asking for a non existing object.

Marco
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  1. linux@horizon.comMar 22, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceMar 22, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 22, 2006
  4. Marco CostalbaMar 22, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonMar 22, 2006
  7. Mark WoodingMar 24, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsMar 24, 2006
  10. Morten WelinderMar 24, 2006
  11. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2006
  12. Nick HengeveldMar 22, 2006
  13. Nick HengeveldMar 22, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2006
  16. Nick HengeveldMar 23, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2006
  18. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiMar 22, 2006

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