i am serving git repos over http with webdav extensions read operations like git ls-remote, git fetch, git pull should work with such an http remote but currently (with git 2.49.0) this fails with $ git ls-remote http://localhost/src/somerepo/ fatal: repository 'http://localhost/src/somerepo/' not found $ git ls-remote http://localhost/src/somerepo/.git/ fatal: repository 'http://localhost/src/somerepo/.git/' not found http server: nginx nginx webdav module: https://github.com/mid1221213/nginx-dav-ext-module nginx config: > http { > server { > listen 0.0.0.0:80; > root /var/www/nginx/htdocs; > location /src/ { > # PROPFIND allows directory listing > dav_ext_methods PROPFIND OPTIONS; > dav_access user:r group:r all:r; > autoindex on; > # disable index.html > index this_file_should_never_exist_DsMSIsKgBk; > } > } > } available methods can be fetched with the OPTIONS method curl -s -i -X OPTIONS http://localhost/src/somerepo/ | grep -i ^allow: directory listings can be fetched with the PROPFIND method curl -s -X PROPFIND -H "Depth: 1" http://localhost/src/somerepo/ | grep -F 'D:displayname' | sed -E 's|.*>(.*)<.*|\1|' | LANG=C sort workaround: pushd /path/to/repo/.git/ git --bare update-server-info mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update popd git ls-remote http://localhost/src/somerepo/.git/ continue: Git dumb HTTP protocol should work without update-server-info https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAGiEHCtP29bQRsEyLabNrLuiP96P-o7EEGi88B7pJbP0tfprxw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > reading directories is only possible with WebDAV since > HTTP doesn't offer native directory listing. However, we don't use > WebDAV for fetches and other read operations and not all web servers > support it. We get better web server support in many cases by requiring > that the server side do the work of updating the lists of packs and > refs.
