From: Marco Costalba Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:06:13 GMT Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060322025921.1722.qmail@science.horizon.com> On 21 Mar 2006 21:59:21 -0500, 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