From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 23:48:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: fix clone on sha256 repos
Message-ID: <xmqq8s4kj0gs.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YJsM3sUXRYjJiwZG@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> This seems fine as a solution for now.  I tried to keep the transport
> code mostly independent of the local repository settings, but in this
> case because the HTTP walker mucks around with the internals of the
> local pack files, I don't think we can avoid this without some major
> restructuring, which I'm not interested in sitting down and writing this
> evening.
>
> I'll clean this up in a nicer way once I get interop working.  Thanks
> for sending a patch for this.

Thanks, both.

As an "experimental" stuff, I do not think SHA256 "fix" is as urgent
as (or of higher priority than) other stuff, like reducing
inter-developer stepping-on-others-toes, so I'll refrain from
picking Eric's patch up myself and let you include/handle it later.