From: Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: "git clone" can't clone a gitweb URL
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:32:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454EF304.4030304@gmail.com> (raw)
$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/i18n.git
error: Can't lock ref
rm: cannot remove directory `i18n/.git/clone-tmp': Directory not emp
ty
At last I found the URL was a gitweb URL not for mirroring.
It's better git provides clear information like "This is maybe a
gitweb URL, view it in web browser for more information", or
gitweb can send a redirection response to git client. Even more,
git-daemon also can send redirection response to tell git client
that the service is offline temporarily and it can use an alternative
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