On Thursday 05 June 2008 09:57:39 Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> my understanding is that this peculiar http-hosted git repository
> takes:
> 	http://foo.bar.xz/serve.cgi?repo=3Dfoo.git/
> as the base URL, and the patch author wants us to ask for (for example)
> "info/alternates" as
> 	http://foo.bar.xz/serve.cgi/info/alternates?repo=3Dfoo.git/

Actually the base URL is more like

	http://foo.bar.xz/foo.git/0?type=3Dtext/plain

and I want to retrieve objects with

	http://foo.bar.xz/foo.git/0/info/refs?type=3Dtext/plain

but the gist is basically the same. My patch will indeed break git for URLs=
=20
like the one you gave.


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>  (2) If that is indeed the issue being tackled, sorry, it is not how "dumb
>      protocol" http server is expected to behave.  Your server needs
>      fixing.
> If the protocol being used is still the "dumb commit walker" protocol,
> then, given the base URL of the repository $URL, "info/refs" must exist at
> "$URL/info/refs", and a loose object deadbeef... must exist at
> "$URL/objects/de/adbeef...".  That's how the protocol is defined.

If that is indeed the case, you're right. That could probably be tackled by=
=20
some small fixes in Freenet's http-gateway. I'll talk to the other develope=
rs=20
about that.


Thanks,

	David