www: support git cloning via dumb HTTP

This is enabled by default, for now.
Smart HTTP cloning support will be added later, but it will
be optional since it can be highly CPU and memory intensive.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/public-inbox-index b/public-inbox-index
index 53449556..578d91d5 100755
--- a/public-inbox-index
+++ b/public-inbox-index
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
 sub index_dir {
         my ($git_dir) = @_;
         -d $git_dir or die "$git_dir does not appear to be a git repository\n";
+
+        system('git', "--git-dir=$git_dir", 'update-server-info') and
+                die "git update-server-info failed for $git_dir";
         my $s = PublicInbox::SearchIdx->new($git_dir, 1);
         $s->index_sync;
 }