Re: Git-aware HTTP transport

["Imran M Yousuf" <imyousuf@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>
>> So this is what may be the final draft of the HTTP protocol.
>> I've added stuff about capability selection between the peers for
>> future expansion support.  The upload-pack service has a better
>> use of it than receive-pack.  Otherwise it is what I think you are
>> agreeing to above.  ;-)
>>
>
> It looks good to me.  I *really* like the option of combining a redirect
> with a refs list in one reply; this will make things substantially easier do
> deploy on kernel.org, and saves a round trip to boot.

I agree, this is a very cool feature of the protocol...

- Imran

>
> Just an implementation detail for the server, however: for an *empty*
> repository (one which has no refs at all), the server needs to *not*
> transmit the redirect, or there will be a loop :)  It is unnecessary,
> anyway, since there is inherently nothing to do.
>
>        -hpa
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