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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:27:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060404152737.GN27689@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060404121056.GB14967@reactrix.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:10:57PM CEST, I got a letter
where Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com> said that...
> 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.

Because people do not know they have to set up their post-update hook.
When they are already going at lengths to find out how to set up DAV for
git fetch, they would discover the post-update hook way as well.

So, it really seems rather redundant to me.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-04 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 16:01 HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone) Daniel Drake
2006-04-03 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-03 18:09   ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-04-04  7:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 10:00     ` Petr Baudis
2006-04-04 12:10       ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-04-04 15:27         ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2006-04-04 17:56           ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-04-03 18:28   ` Daniel Drake
2006-04-04 18:01     ` Nick Hengeveld
2006-04-05 12:23       ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski

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