Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Configuration of bare Git repositories over Dumb HTTP protocol

[EuAndreh]

Answer: there isn't any special treatment per se, only that Savannah's Git
server is honoring the clients query params, specifically the
"service=git-upload-pack" one.

    $ curl -I https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git/info/refs
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Content-Type: text/plain

    $ curl -I 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement

On a bare Git repository served exclusively via an HTTP server as static files,
the "service=git-upload-pack" query param gets ignored.  The problem with this
is that while Git itself handles its "Dumb HTTP" protocol, libgit2 doesn't
implement it [0].

[0]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/4652#issuecomment-390903142