Subject: Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From: Lukas Sandström <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:29:02 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Marco Costalba" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>http://digilander.libero.it /mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/objects/8d/ea03519e75f47d
> 
> To be fair, the site is _not_ missing anything from HTTP
> protocol perspective, because when git asks 8d/ea0351... file,
> the server responds with a regular "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" response.
> So it is _your_ repository that is corrupt -- instead of
> correctly _lacking_ the file you should have removed with
> prune-packed, it has a garbage file.

Actually, it sends a 302 redirect. 

Perhaps a repository config option to treat a 302 as a 404?

/Lukas Sandström