[syslinux] git daemon on zytor is back in action

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 15 10:24:17 PDT 2015


On 06/13/2015 11:04 AM, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
> 
>  
> About a link such as:
>  http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git
>   /tag/?id=syslinux-4.07
> 
> Q: shouldn't it be as follows?:
>  http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git
>   /tag/?id=refs/tags/syslinux-4.07
> 

Does the latter actually *work*?  When I tried it, the latter didn't
seem to work so I put a hack in.  This would be a shortcoming in cgit.

> Isn't the current syntax (without explicitly using "refs/tags/") in 
> conflict with the corresponding tag object (which seems to be currently 
> inactive / unsupported / failing in git.zytor.com, but it is valid in 
> other Syslinux repos):
>  http://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git
>   /tag/?id=a4fcb6d867aadcaf5af8f87eb1ba96abe2748159
> 
> In other words, isn't the "refs/tags/" section of the link required, so 
> to avoid any potential conflict between the tag *name* and the tag 
> *value*?

Yes, although cgit seems to use the /tag/ qualifier instead.  Clumsy if
you ask me.

	-hpa



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