Acknowledged - they were the same soln. Thank you T
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov < flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:56:44AM +0530, Mohith Thimmaiah wrote: > > > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:43:25 +0100 > > > Antony Male <antony.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > When you clone (or fetch) a repository over the git protocol, a > > > > program on your computer (git-fetch-pack) and a similar one on the > > > > server (git-upload-pack) coordinate to figure out exactly what > > > > commits (roughly speaking) needs to be sent to you. > > > > > > > > HTTP, however, is a "dumb" protocol, meaning that this approach > > > > cannot be taken. > > > > Therefore, some auxiliary files need to be present on the server, to > > > > allow your client to figure out what commits it needs to request. > > > > > > > > These files aren't generated by default -- you need to run git > > > > update-server-info after every commit in order to generate them. > > > Being pedantic here, for clarity: this is needed to be run after every > > > push, not commit--a push can send a whole lot of commits in one go > > > which is a common pattern for a DVCS. > > Prefer to use the soln suggested by Antony > > [1]: http://progit.org/book/ch4-1.html#the_https_protocol > > [2]: http://progit.org/book/ch4-5.html > > This is onetime setup - no need to run > > after every push. Just so others who follow can see this > Well, we both presented the same solution, just pointed to different > docs (Antony pointed to a book and I pointed to the manual page). > Hence my remark refers to how that hook runs--once per push which may > bring arbitrary number of commits (and even update several refs (read: > branches and tags) in one go using those commits). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
