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Re: wishlist; unify behavior while cloning non-bare repos over http to be in line with ssh/local

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 10, 2016, 22:13 UTC
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Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com> writes:
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>> The necessary update to the client might be as simple as using
>> $GIVEN_URL/.git/ and attempting the request again after seeing the
>> probe for $GIVEN_URL/info/refs fails.
>
> Sure -- workarounds are possible,...

Just so that there is no misunderstanding, the above was not a workaround but is an outline of an implementation of updated http client shipped with Git.

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  3. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2016
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