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Re: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2025, 04:14 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Possibly dumb-http could learn to do the same scraping that httpdirfs
> does to get the refs and pack listings (though this might be quite slow
> for unpacked refs, if the ref tree is deep).

Please don't. Once you go that route, that is no longer "dumb http" at all.

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  1. Milan HauthSep 7, 2025
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  3. Milan HauthSep 7, 2025
  4. brian m. carlsonSep 7, 2025
  5. Patrick SteinhardtSep 8, 2025
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2025
  7. Patrick SteinhardtSep 9, 2025
  8. Jeff KingSep 8, 2025
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2025
  10. brian m. carlsonSep 8, 2025
  11. Jeff KingSep 9, 2025

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