Re: Submodules and rewind

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:22:14 +0100 (CET)
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:06:36 +0100 (CET)
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > 
> > > > $ git-submodule init
> > > > Submodule 'pkgs/linux-image-2.6.23-1-486-vyatta' (http://git.vyatta.com/linux-vyatta.git) registered for path 'pkgs/linux-image-2.6.23-1-486-vyatta'
> > > 
> > > AFAICT this is your problem.  Your urls are http:// url, and do not 
> > > end in a slash.
> > > 
> > > Yes, there was a fix recently, but apparently it was not enough.  
> > > With the slash, it should even work on older git.
> > 
> > That is a different issue.  It worked before my messing around with the 
> > vyatta-iproute.git repository.
> 
> From your description:
> 
> -- snip --
> In old repository
> $ git-submodule update
> ...
> Getting pack list for
> http://git.vyatta.com/home/shemminger/vyatta-iproute/.git/
> error: The requested URL returned error: 403
> error: Unable to find 8d971aff46015fc156d5b74254d21831d275963c under
> http://git.vyatta.com/vyatta-iproute.git
> Cannot obtain needed object 8d971aff46015fc156d5b74254d21831d275963c
> Unable to checkout '79b4dbe51b84fdf37fdc9cb8b17819526508a60c' in submodule
> path 'pkgs/vyatta-iproute'
> -- snap --
> 
> So there was some type of invalid HTTP request, and then the hin tat 8d971 
> was not found under http://.../vyatta-iproute.git (note the absence of the 
> trailing slash).  Of course, since it is 403 ("forbidden"), and not 30x 
> (which I thought I read), it could be a different error altogether.
> 
> In any case, this means that your submodule is not at all fine.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 

The problem was that the rebuilt repository had an alternate file pointing to a
different and inaccessible location.  Rebuilding again fixed the problem.

Thanks for your help.