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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ERR support to smart HTTP
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:11:43 -0500
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Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 12:41:06PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
 
>> For this specific error, why can't gitolite use an HTTP response code?
>> Should http-backend be using ERR is some places, too, a la [1]?
[...]
> AFAIK, HTTP errors don't have descriptions printed.

Thanks for the explanation.  Makes sense.

 $ git clone http://example.com/nonsense.git
 fatal: http://example.com/nonsense.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?