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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git doesn't append ".git" to url WAS [PATCH 0/3] http*: refactor  fetching code (v2)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:17:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0905210717j174499f5k4740dc2f821bec62@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> On this topic, some of my friends have complained that git doesn't
> automatically try appending .git to a URL when it fails to find a
> bare git repository on the server.

are your friends hosting non-bare repositories directly (with
checked-out copies)? In the first place, this isn't a good idea;
please refer to

 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#def_bare_repository

and

 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2009/1/30/4852194

for reasons why.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-21 14:17 Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2009-05-21 14:29 ` git doesn't append ".git" to url WAS [PATCH 0/3] http*: refactor fetching code (v2) Tony Finch
2009-05-21 15:39   ` Tay Ray Chuan

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