Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > By default, git-repack(1) will update server info that is required by > the dumb HTTP transport. This can be skipped by passing the `-n` flag, > but what we're noticably missing is a config option to permanently > disable updating this information. > > Add a new option "repack.updateServerInfo" which can be used to disable > the logic. Most hosting providers have turned off the dumb HTTP protocol > anyway, and on the client-side it woudln't typically be useful either. > Giving a persistent way to disable this feature thus makes quite some > sense to avoid wasting compute cycles and storage. Makes sense. Perhaps we can leave a NEEDSWORK comment somewhere to flip the default to false in two years or so. Will queue. Thanks.
