Re: git clone over http

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

tisdag 04 september 2007 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 11:23 +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> >> git clone (1.5.3) with http is somewhat unreliable. I've noticed if
> >> can actually give
> >> me different versions of a branch each time I run it, eventually yielding
> >> the one I'm expecting.  And now this:
> >
> > I don't see this behavior, but I do see other wierdness cloning via
> > http.  Anytime I clone a repo (any repo) via http from behind the
> > firewall/proxy at work I never get any branches.  'git branch' only ever
> > shows 'master'.  I can't checkout and work on any other branch.  I can
> > work around the problem by cloning on a box that is more open, but was
> > wondering if anyone knows how to fix this.
> 
> Well, what does "git branch -r" say?
> 
> If you see the remote tracking branches out of your branch (aka
> "heads/") namespace, that has been the default for quite some
> time since 1.5.0 days.
> 
> Perhaps "more open" one has ancient git that dumped remote
> tracking branches in your branch namespace, while your "behind
> firewall" one has not so ancient git?

The version where I noticed that strange behaviour was 1.5.3-rc6 on the client
and 1.5.1.4 on the server. The local repo was originally cloned with 1.5.something.
The interesting branch was a non-fastword one (i.e. "pu") and on the server I
was running git-update-server-info every 30 minutes. The pu branch on the server
was stable during the strange period. I'm not sure whether I got the odd behaviour
within those 30 minutes or not.

The url to the repo is http: //rosenberg.homelinux.net/repos/EGIT.git

I cannot http clone myself anymore it seems, but someone else may succeed better.

My curl is 7.16.0. Haven't tried any other version yet.

-- robin