Re: Cannot clone redirecting stdout

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:23:29AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> > I faced a problem when trying to clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git
> > 
> > this works:
> > git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo
> > 
> > this doesn't:
> > git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo >log
> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> > fatal: early EOF
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> I can reproduce the problem here. But after staring at the strace for a
> long time, I don't think the problem is on the client side. The remote
> end _does_ hang up unexpectedly.
> 
> Looking at what we send, the only difference between the redirected and
> unredirected case I could find is that we send the "no-progress" flag to
> the server, which then hangs up on us instead of sending us the pack.
> Which makes no sense.

I did a little more testing, and I can't reproduce the problem against a
local git-daemon. I tried using several versions for the server, going
all the way back to v1.5.0, which pre-dates no-progress, and all of them
worked just fine.

So I am inclined to think there is something non-standard or broken at
gitorious.org. I'm cc'ing support@gitorious to see if they have any
comment.

-Peff