From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:14:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info
Message-ID: <xmqqo6rlzil3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250908000543.GB1281511@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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.