On 10/10/2009 03:12 AM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2009-10-09, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> +If there is no repository at $GIT_URL, the server MUST respond with >>> +the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code. >> >> We may also want to add >> >> If there is no object at $GIT_URL/some/path, the server MUST respond >> with the '404 Not Found' HTTP status code. >> >> to help dumb clients. > > In both cases - is it really necessary to forbid the use of 410 (Gone)? > 410 means "we once had it, it's no longer here, no idea where it went." It's a largely useless code... -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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