Re: 09/09: lint: Append "/info/refs" to git-reference-url.

[Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru>]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
>
>>     lint: Append "/info/refs" to git-reference-url.
>>
> After this fix, I'm now seeing warnings from Github, e.g.:
>
> gnu/packages/rails.scm:675:2: ruby-activejob@7.0.4.3: scheduled 
> Software Heritage archival
> gnu/packages/rails.scm:282:2: ruby-activemodel@7.0.4.3: URI 
> https://github.com/rails/rails/info/refs not reachable: 403 
> ("Forbidden")


It seems that the `service=git-upload-pack` is important as it 
switches the protocol to "smart-http".

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~/devel/ext λ curl 
'https://github.com/sarg/dotfiles/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack'
001e# service=git-upload-pack
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" 
to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider 
"--output
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.
0000

~/devel/ext λ curl 'https://github.com/sarg/dotfiles/info/refs'
Please upgrade your git client.
GitHub.com no longer supports git over dumb-http: 
https://github.com/blog/809-git-dumb-http-transport-to-be-turned-off-in-90-days
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Maybe the linter should just use `git ls-remote` instead of 
guessing the url?
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~/devel/ext λ git ls-remote https://github.com/sarg/dotfiles
7707f77e8d9c11b5435c5901eca45be1a72d2054	HEAD
7707f77e8d9c11b5435c5901eca45be1a72d2054	refs/heads/master
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