Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > >>> Moreover, this is in the webdav-based "dumb http" push code path, >>> which I do not trust much at all. I wonder if we could retire it >>> completely (or at least provide an option to turn it off). >> >> I would really like that, too. It has been the cause of a lot of pain >> when working with the smart code, and I am not at all surprised to find >> a bug of this magnitude lurking in it. I'd _hoped_ this could show that >> the system has been unusably broken for years, which would give us >> confidence to turn it off. :) But per your paragraph above, people could >> very easily still have been happily using it in the meantime. > > Same here. Perhaps we should deliberately and silently break it and > see who screams?
Hopefully it should be obvious but just for people with unreasonable expectations, I should clarify that the above needs a smiley ;-).
