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 23:39:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0905210839i1789dc33uc760ab7779e68b51@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905211518430.23333@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Hi,
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> ...Git's error message is misleading: the problem is
> nothing to do with running git update-server-info (see below).
you're right. Perhaps git should check if the repo (on http://) exists
first, before printing that message.
> Its
> behaviour is inconsistent: git retries after appending .git if you are
> fetching from a local repository or ssh:// or git:// URLs but not for
> http:// URLs.
that's true too.
> Actually maybe there's a third bug: it says it has initialized
> a repository but it removes it again if the clone fails.
well, if the clone fails, then the cloned repo would be in an
incomplete state, so removing it isn't that bad an idea. Perhaps an
option could be made to prevents clone from doing this, so that one
could try restarting the clone.
--
Cheers,
Ray Chuan
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2009-05-21 14:17 git doesn't append ".git" to url WAS [PATCH 0/3] http*: refactor fetching code (v2) Tay Ray Chuan
2009-05-21 14:29 ` Tony Finch
2009-05-21 15:39 ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
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