From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:27:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20060404152737.GN27689@pasky.or.cz> References: <443146EC.7060704@gentoo.org> <7virpqefp1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060403180929.GA14967@reactrix.com> <20060404100035.GM27689@pasky.or.cz> <20060404121056.GB14967@reactrix.com> 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 17:27:29 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 1FQnR0-0000bE-Ke for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:27:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750711AbWDDP1F (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:27:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750709AbWDDP1F (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:27:05 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:28087 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbWDDP1E (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:27:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 2192 invoked by uid 2001); 4 Apr 2006 17:27:37 +0200 To: Nick Hengeveld Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060404121056.GB14967@reactrix.com> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:10:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Nick Hengeveld 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.