From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: http-protocol question
Message-ID: <xmqqzjb6kkt9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141202053331.GA31516@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> For a public repository, it might make sense to provide a config option
> to loosen the is_our_ref check completely (i.e., to just has_sha1_file).
> But such an option does not yet exist.

In principle, yes, but that cannot be has_sha1_file(); it has to
have a fully connected healthy history behind it.