From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Hengeveld Subject: Re: HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 05:10:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20060404121056.GB14967@reactrix.com> References: <443146EC.7060704@gentoo.org> <7virpqefp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060403180929.GA14967@reactrix.com> <20060404100035.GM27689@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 04 14:11:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQkNP-0001S6-Km for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:11:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964988AbWDDMLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:11:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964991AbWDDMLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:11:09 -0400 Received: from 241.37.26.69.virtela.com ([69.26.37.241]:37953 "EHLO teapot.corp.reactrix.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964988AbWDDMLI (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:11:08 -0400 Received: from teapot.corp.reactrix.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by teapot.corp.reactrix.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k34CAvBS014828; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 05:10:57 -0700 Received: (from nickh@localhost) by teapot.corp.reactrix.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id k34CAvW5014825; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 05:10:57 -0700 To: Petr Baudis Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060404100035.GM27689@pasky.or.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:00:35PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Well, what is the actual advantage of DAV compared to > git-update-server-info? Why would I prefer enabling DAV? In theory, things should work the same either way. It seems that in practice though, the server info files continue to surface as a source of fetch problems. -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.