From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:43:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: Add sanity check for url
Message-ID: <u2tf3271551003301943sf703e66fz4274135efd991430@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voci5qspr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

> I may be being slow but I do not see the point of this patch.

Agreed, it's not a bug that any end-user would normally bump into. I
bumped into this myself when I assumed that the remote `foo` exists,
and invoked `git-remote-http foo`. Since remote_get() transparently
creates a remote when one does not exist, remote-curl doesn't know if
the remote `foo` ever really exists. Going off to fetch a HTML page
when an expected remote doesn't exist is really ugly, so I thought I'd
prepare this patch. Plus, it doesn't hurt to make sure that the remote
helper conforms to the documentation- useful when a developer is
calling it independently.

-- Ram