From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alvaro del Castillo <acs@bitergia.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does fetch-pack not works over http?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:33:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873764bwjd.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509100979.32292.19.camel@bitergia.com> (Alvaro del Castillo's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:42:59 +0200")
On Okt 27 2017, Alvaro del Castillo <acs@bitergia.com> wrote:
> We're wondering why "fetch-pack" (when is running from the command
> line) doesn't handle "https://" protocol. It only works with "git://".
>
> For instance, this doesn't work:
>
> $ git fetch-pack https://github.com/git/git refs/heads/master
> fatal: I don't handle protocol 'https'
>
> while this does:
>
> $ git fetch-pack git://github.com/git/git refs/heads/master
>
> The funny thing is that under the hood, "fetch" calls "fetch-pack"
> using "https" procotol. Example of a trace below:
>
> 12:03:07.512558 git.c:344 trace: built-in: git 'fetch-
> pack' '--stateless-rpc' '--stdin' '--lock-pack' '--thin' 'https://githu
> b.com/git/git/'
With --stateless-rpc, fetch-pack doesn't do the connect itself, but
expects the caller having set up a pipe to it. The URL is then actually
ignored.
Andreas.
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2017-10-27 10:42 Why does fetch-pack not works over http? Alvaro del Castillo
2017-10-27 12:33 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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