Re: [BUG REPORT] "git ls-remote http://git.domain.com/repo.git HEAD" doesn't work

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:03:36AM +0000, Sven wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Following up my recent post, I'm now pretty sure this is a bug. Apparently,
> ls-remote does not list the HEAD version when used over HTTP(S) whereas it does
> work otherwise. Check this out:
> 
> over HTTP - no HEAD listed here:
> git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 
> over GIT - HEAD is listed in this case:
> git ls-remote git://github.com/lux/sitellite.git 
> 
> As Capistrano relies on "git ls-remote http://git.domain.com/repo.git HEAD" to
> find out which version to pull, you can't deploy from Git over HTTP(S) repos for
> now. Capistrano is the de facto standard for deploying Ruby on Rails (and
> related) web applications.
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking into this!! (My knowledge unfortunately doesn't allow
> me to submit a patch myself.)

$ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git HEAD
* Couldn't find host www.kernel.org in the .netrc file, using defaults
* About to connect() to www.kernel.org port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 204.152.191.37... * Connected to www.kernel.org (204.152.191.37) port 80 (#0)
> GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.5.5.4
Host: www.kernel.org
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:08:36 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora)
< Last-Modified: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:04:30 GMT
< ETag: "14225449-66de-44f9954509380"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 26334
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
< 
* Expire cleared
* Connection #0 to host www.kernel.org left intact

http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs doesn't contain HEAD.
Shouldn't it ?

Mike