From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:55:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20090123165549.GI21473@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <1232669252-21881-1-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com> <7vwscm4xx0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Sh7h4lnU5nPTsIof" Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 23 17:57:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQPLI-0001Kn-IX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:57:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755654AbZAWQzw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:55:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755284AbZAWQzw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:55:52 -0500 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([212.40.97.103]:34030 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbZAWQzv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:55:51 -0500 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A171458097; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:55:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D044465E; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:55:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BAE3A11B87A9; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:55:49 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --Sh7h4lnU5nPTsIof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:20:34AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > But then, scripts have no business cloning repositories (fetching, yes. = =20 > But cloning?) I think portals like repo.or.cz may do it. Isn't setting errno (or similar variable) in the HTTP code an option? Then we could see why the transport failed and make a difference between "network error" and "no refs found". --Sh7h4lnU5nPTsIof Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl59pUACgkQe81tAgORUJaazACcCCCdvJZKa6BZTYMboPorw4Ca P/4An1dSDOyV1lTpCDi1OsuLCFXGt08x =XHyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sh7h4lnU5nPTsIof--