Hi, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am torn about this. > > On one hand, if we are going to treat such a half failure as nothing > conclusive, I do not see a point to keep that check to begin with. > > On the other hand, if a HEAD request to a URL results in an unauthorized, > what plausible excuse the server operator could give for allowing a GET > request to the same URL? If we are going to keep the check if *.pack that > corresponds to the *.idx will be available, shouldn't we trust whatever > check we perform? I am in favour or removing this check, not just due to its unreliability, but for the sake of consistency (we very rarely send a HEAD request to poll data before doing a GET). Do disregard the patch included earlier, if you haven't already done so. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html