# Git over HTTPS Oddity with HEAD

1 messages from 2008-06-13 to 2008-06-13. Participants: Sven.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13937

## Sven, 2008-06-13 22:59

Subject: Git over HTTPS Oddity with HEAD
Message-ID: <loom.20080613T225103-368@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20080613T225103-368%40post.gmane.org

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Hi

I'm using Git over HTTPS with up-to-date versions on both ends. With a populated
repo, I try the following:

# git ls-remote https://git.domain.com/myapp.git HEAD

This gives me no reply at all, and indeed ...

# git ls-remote https://git.domain.com/myapp.git
bb629d461b11d3c8edbc1e4f3c44085198fdaede	refs/heads/master

Besides this, however, Git over HTTPS seems to work just fine and if I look
inside the myapp.git on the server, a HEAD file is there:

# cat myapp.git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master

I assume it's something fishy on the server side although I haven't done
anything exotic there. Any idea what could be the reason for this?

Thanks!   -sven


PS:
The background story: Capistrano (Ruby on Rails) issues the above ls-remote HEAD
command during deployment, therefore not getting the head version in reply
causes Capistrano to bark.

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