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From: Alvaro del Castillo <acs@bitergia.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Why does fetch-pack not works over http?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:42:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509100979.32292.19.camel@bitergia.com> (raw)

Dear all,

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/'

Cheers
-- 
Alvaro del Castillo San Félix
acs@bitergia.com - Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
http://www.bitergia.com
"Software metrics for your peace of mind"




             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-27 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-27 10:42 Alvaro del Castillo [this message]
2017-10-27 12:33 ` Why does fetch-pack not works over http? Andreas Schwab
2017-10-30 16:58   ` Alvaro del Castillo

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