From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Purdie Subject: git pull fails with http urls? Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:10:53 +0100 Message-ID: <1188915053.5705.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 04 16:50:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISZj7-0001ta-5z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:50:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754280AbXIDOt4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754202AbXIDOt4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([194.106.48.114]:40040 "EHLO tim.rpsys.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754180AbXIDOtz (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:49:55 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2332 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:49:55 EDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l84EB2vg015074 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:11:02 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14922-03 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:10:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.15] (max.rpnet.com [192.168.1.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l84EAsFJ015068 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:10:54 +0100 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've noticed a problem with pulling http urls. I can clone them fine: git clone http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gio.git/ and I can pull with: git pull which works as expected however if I try: git pull http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gio.git/ it fails with: error: pick-rref: HEAD not found No such ref HEAD at http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gio.git/ The HEAD file is there at http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gio.git/HEAD and: git pull http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/git/gio.git/ master works. It seems git just doesn't want to see/understand the HEAD file? Is the above supposed to work or is something wrong with the above commands? I see this with git 1.5.2.3 and 1.5.3, google suggests this might have worked with 1.4.x and broke in 1.5... Regards, Richard