Make ls-remote http://... list HEAD, like for git://...

This makes a struct ref able to represent a symref, and makes http.c
able to recognize one, and makes transport.c look for "HEAD" as a ref
in the list, and makes it dereference symrefs for the resulting ref,
if any.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-26 15:53:12 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c13b2633f4
commit be885d96fe
5 changed files with 43 additions and 2 deletions

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http.c
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@ -626,7 +626,10 @@ int http_fetch_ref(const char *base, struct ref *ref)
strbuf_rtrim(&buffer);
if (buffer.len == 40)
ret = get_sha1_hex(buffer.buf, ref->old_sha1);
else
else if (!prefixcmp(buffer.buf, "ref: ")) {
ref->symref = xstrdup(buffer.buf + 5);
ret = 0;
} else
ret = 1;
} else {
ret = error("Couldn't get %s for %s\n%s",