Revert "retry request without query when info/refs?query fails"

This reverts commit 703e6e76a14825e5b0c960d525f34e607154b4f7.

Retrying without the query parameter was added as a workaround
for a single broken HTTP server at git.debian.org[1]. The server
was misconfigured to route every request with a query parameter
into gitweb.cgi. Admins fixed the server's configuration within
16 hours of the bug report to the Git mailing list, but we still
patched Git with this fallback and have been paying for it since.

Most Git hosting services configure the smart HTTP protocol and the
retry logic confuses users when there is a transient HTTP error as
Git dropped the real error from the smart HTTP request. Removing the
retry makes root causes easier to identify.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137609

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
index 3ec474fc631eb3b433b3cadbd74aed4b83cba724..2359f59202ac63566caa893a85a1356dbd8d5526 100644 (file)
--- a/remote-curl.c
+++ b/remote-curl.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
        struct strbuf buffer = STRBUF_INIT;
        struct discovery *last = last_discovery;
        char *refs_url;
-       int http_ret, is_http = 0, proto_git_candidate = 1;
+       int http_ret, is_http = 0;
 
        if (last && !strcmp(service, last->service))
                return last;
@@ -113,19 +113,6 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
        refs_url = strbuf_detach(&buffer, NULL);
 
        http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE);
-
-       /* try again with "plain" url (no ? or & appended) */
-       if (http_ret != HTTP_OK && http_ret != HTTP_NOAUTH) {
-               free(refs_url);
-               strbuf_reset(&buffer);
-
-               proto_git_candidate = 0;
-               strbuf_addf(&buffer, "%sinfo/refs", url);
-               refs_url = strbuf_detach(&buffer, NULL);
-
-               http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE);
-       }
-
        switch (http_ret) {
        case HTTP_OK:
                break;
@@ -144,8 +131,7 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service)
        last->buf_alloc = strbuf_detach(&buffer, &last->len);
        last->buf = last->buf_alloc;
 
-       if (is_http && proto_git_candidate
-               && 5 <= last->len && last->buf[4] == '#') {
+       if (is_http && 5 <= last->len && last->buf[4] == '#') {
                /* smart HTTP response; validate that the service
                 * pkt-line matches our request.
                 */