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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 11, 2016, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk2j0jnej.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160511004931.GX23764@onerussian.com>

Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com> writes:

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> On Tue, 10 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >> 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.
>
> ah, sorry, I have indeed might have misread it.  So we are on the same
> page -- that is I saw also as the tentative implementation ;)

Good. Now somebody who is interested in seeing that happen (when I said "shipped with Git" above, I meant "shipped with possible future Git") needs to find (or be) somebody to code that change ;-)

Thanks.