been deprecated.
* "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the
- presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
+ presence of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes
gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET
request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke