On Thursday 05 June 2008 09:57:39 Junio C Hamano wrote: > my understanding is that this peculiar http-hosted git repository > takes: > http://foo.bar.xz/serve.cgi?repo=foo.git/ > as the base URL, and the patch author wants us to ask for (for example) > "info/alternates" as > http://foo.bar.xz/serve.cgi/info/alternates?repo=foo.git/ Actually the base URL is more like http://foo.bar.xz/foo.git/0?type=text/plain and I want to retrieve objects with http://foo.bar.xz/foo.git/0/info/refs?type=text/plain but the gist is basically the same. My patch will indeed break git for URLs like the one you gave. > (2) If that is indeed the issue being tackled, sorry, it is not how "dumb > protocol" http server is expected to behave. Your server needs > fixing. > If the protocol being used is still the "dumb commit walker" protocol, > then, given the base URL of the repository $URL, "info/refs" must exist at > "$URL/info/refs", and a loose object deadbeef... must exist at > "$URL/objects/de/adbeef...". That's how the protocol is defined. If that is indeed the case, you're right. That could probably be tackled by some small fixes in Freenet's http-gateway. I'll talk to the other developers about that. Thanks, David
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