From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Git error when cloning pvops tree Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:07:07 -0800 Message-ID: <4AF8BCBB.5070601@goop.org> References: <4AF8AE1F.6060701@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Santos, Jose Renato G" Cc: Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 11/09/09 16:35, Santos, Jose Renato G wrote: > Thanks Jeremy > > It seems I might be out of luck > Having HP IT support change company wide firewall policies seems an almost impossible task but I will try... > I did a quick google search and it seems that others using http also experienced the same problem. However I could not find any solution except to use the git protocol (which is probably not an option for me)... > Thanks for looking into it anyway > Don't get me wrong, http fetch for xen.git is something I intend to support for precisely that reason. But I don't test it myself (unless prodded), and it seems to magically break from time to time. I can exactly reproduce your problem and I'm looking at a fix (or at least workaround). I'm wondering if a more stable long-term fix is to mirror git into hg to enable http access, rather than rely on git's flaky http support. J