On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Paul J R <me@xxxxxx> wrote: > It hadnt occured to me that git-http-backend behaves differently to the > "dumb" http protocol on read (though that was from reading the git source so > i obviously missed what was going on there). Ultimately im writing a little > webapp that wraps around git-http-backend for some git repository management > and on reads i've been just "acting like webserver" but on writes i throw > off to git-http-backend. But seeing it do authenticated reads properly via > git-http-backend im going to change how it functions, cause that does work > with older clients. It works back as far as 1.6.6 as a client. Clients before 1.6.6 can't use git-http-backend. Fortunately 1.6.6 is pretty old, its nearly 3 years ago (Dec 23, 2009). -- 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