Re: [PATCH] Docs: web server must setenv GIT_PROTOCOL for v2

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2021, 05:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqilz9ugz2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <64a5aaf1-64af-3599-8520-ff3b55411e2a@gmail.com>

Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:

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> I agree it's nice to make it work out of the box, without the web server
> admin having to configure anything. But, I'm not sure we should completely
> drop the documentation patches: your patch will only affect future versions
> of git-http-backend, and users of previous versions will be left without
> any documentation as to how to configure it for protocol v2. So I would think we should
> keep the documentation patches, maybe with a mention "this should not be necessary
> in Git 2.34 and later versions" or something like that (since your
> commit message mentions that it "generally" should work like that depending
> on the web servers).

Thanks, exactly my thought on the need for docs.