Documentation from Documentation/technical/ not hosted

[sxlijin]

The Git man pages make occasional references to information in technical/; however, this documentation is not hosted anywhere on the site, so the link 302's to the home page for the docs.

kernel.org does host them FWIW.

@peff thoughts?

[peff]

In ye olden days when git-scm.com was first written, the pages in technical/ did not even build to HTML. And since there's so rarely referenced by the main documentation, nobody ever noticed or added it. I suspect it would just need some tweaks to the rake task that pulls in the pages. Patches definitely welcome.

[jnavila]

@sxlijin Can you point to where the 302 happens?

[sxlijin]

@jnavila see #512

$ curl -is http://git-scm.com/docs/technical/api-credentials.html | head -n 1
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Not sure why curl doesn't get a 302. On Chrome 60.0.3112.113 for Windows, I get a 307 (to upgrade from http to https) and then a 302. I'm not sure which of the request headers trigger it, or if it's a cookie, but I doubt it's particularly relevant.

[peff]

The 301 is to redirect you to https, and then you get the 302 (curl doesn't follow the redirects by default, but if you add in -L you can see it switching to HTTP/2. Neat!).

I'm not sure about the 307. It's obviously accomplishing the same thng, but it's interesting that the server generates a different code. This is all Cloudflare, so they may tailor the response based on user-agent sniffing.

Anyway, that's all orthogonal to the actual problem that we don't import the technical/ docs.