Re: git clone problem through HTTP

[Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

>
> On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Aubrey Li wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Aubrey Li wrote:
>> > 
>> > >  I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted, so I
>> > >  can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git
>> > >  tree at all.
>> > 
>> > Linus packs his refs, which means that currently you can't clone using
>> > http, with any version of git.
>> 
>> I really don't understand why packed refs or not depend on the protocol.
>> It doesn't make any sense.
>
> I think it's simply because git-http-fetch doesn't look for the packed-refs 
> file.

Yep.

>  Are we actually going to support HTTP fetching?  If so, we should 
> update it to pull the packed-refs file too.  If not, it should be clearly 
> marked as depreciated.  That said, I think HTTP is the easiest way for most 
> people to publish and removing it would be a mistake.  I'd poke at it, but 
> there's not enough spare time in the day at the moment.

I was hoping to find time to poke this over the weekend ... maybe even 
this evening.

-- 
Julian

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