Replacing repeated calls to u.Parse() with path.Join() on the URL's
path. This method handles certain edge cases differently:
- location not ending in / (http://example.org/repo):
- with the old method, the subsequent parsing of "refs/heads/" would
overwrite the path segment of the original URL, resulting in
http://example.org/refs/heads
- with the new method, "refs/heads" is appended to the location and
a / is added between the two parts if necessary.
- ref begins with / (location: http://example.org/repo/, ref: /ref):
- with the old method, the final parsing of ref would overwrite the
path segment of the URL, resulting in http://example.org/ref
- with the new method, the ref is appended and a / is added between
parts where necessary (same as above).
- ref is a full URL
(location: http://example.org/repo/, ref: http://example.com):
- with the old method, u.Parse(ref) would completely overwrite the
existing URL in u.
- with the new method, the ref is added as a sanitised URL path
resulting in http://example.org/refs/heads/http:/example.com.
The last one will probably result in an error in either case, but it's
probably less incorrect to coerce the ref argument into a path.
The response status code of the GET request is checked as well to
provide an appropriate error message if it is not 200 (OK).
If the data in the response is not a valid hex string, the error message
from the DecodeString() method isn't returned directly and it is
replaced by a more useful message. The original error message is
discarded.
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