Dear Git Folks, Originally this issue was mentioned in previous thread [1], and I have decided to bring it into a separate thread. ATM there is a dichotomy in git behavior between cloning non-bare repos: if I clone over ssh or just locally by providing url without trailing /.git, git senses for /.git and works just fine with ssh or local repositories, but fails for "dummy" http ones, the demo script is here [2] which produces output listed below. From which you can see that cloning using http URL to the repository without /.git fails (git version 2.8.1, Debian). As it was noted in [1], concern could have been to not traverse website since could lead to dangerous places. But .git is under originating url directory, as well as info/ or HEAD or any other object accessed by git, so IMHO this concern is not a concern. So do you think that cloning from http urls could be adjusted so git senses for presence of .git/ subdirectory if originating url is missing necessary /info/refs?.... ? That would make behavior uniform and help us and users in many use-cases IMHO (in particular with relative paths to submodules as in [1]) Thank you in advance, and please maintain CC $> /tmp/democlone Initiating repo cloning via ssh: localhost:/tmp/repo1 Cloning into 'repo1-ssh'... remote: Counting objects: 3, done. remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done. Checking connectivity... done. SUCCESS cloning locally: /tmp/repo1 Cloning into 'repo1-local'... done. SUCCESS starting local http server Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ... cloning via http: http://localhost:8080/repo1 Cloning into 'repo1-http-failed'... 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] code 404, message File not found 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" 404 - fatal: repository 'http://localhost:8080/repo1/' not found FAILED doing with /.git: http://localhost:8080/repo1/.git Cloning into 'repo1-http'... 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 - 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/.git/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 - 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/.git/objects/36/31fa81eb6422349035c915a5a11b177688f491 HTTP/1.1" 200 - 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/.git/objects/12/ddeb87cc045cd67063e95125fbeb014bd1d9b1 HTTP/1.1" 200 - 127.0.0.1 - - [06/May/2016 09:13:41] "GET /repo1/.git/objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 HTTP/1.1" 200 - Checking connectivity... done. SUCCESS [1] problems serving non-bare repos with submodules over http http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/292032 [2] http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/democlone -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- 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